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Title: The Gender System Makes Me Sick: Structural Sexism and Health in the United States
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Homan, Patricia |
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The Gender System Makes Me Sick: Structural Sexism and Health in the United States Presented: Denver CO, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2018 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Gender Attitudes/Roles; Gender Differences; Geocoded Data; Health, Mental/Psychological; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Marriage; State-Level Data/Policy Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The present study seeks to build a new line of health disparities research that parallels the emerging structural racism literature by developing theory and measurement for the concept of structural sexism and examining its relationship to health. Consistent with contemporary theories of gender as a multilevel social system, I conceptualize and measure structural sexism as systematic gender inequality at the macro-level (U.S. state), meso-level (marital dyad), and micro-level (individual). I use U.S. state-level administrative data linked to geo-coded data from the NLSY79. Results show that (1) higher internalized sexism at the micro-level is associated with worse mental health among women; (2) structural sexism within marriage is associated with better physical and mental health for men but worse physical health for women; and (3) exposure to more sexism at the macro-level is associated with worse physical and mental health among both men and women, controlling for meso and micro level sexism. |
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Homan, Patricia. "The Gender System Makes Me Sick: Structural Sexism and Health in the United States." Presented: Denver CO, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2018. |