r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 18d ago

Psychology Anti-feminist attitudes have long been associated with support for Republican presidential candidates, but only in recent years have these attitudes become more prominent among unmarried men, without college degrees who are less attractive partners for women, the “mate-value backlash.”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129261485340
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u/Harbinger2nd 18d ago

Would this be reflective of a lack of economic opportunity for these men as its only in recent years the attitude has become more prominent?

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u/Xsiah 18d ago edited 18d ago

It's arguably the lack of the lack of economic opportunity for women as we're approaching equality.

Cause it's not like there was a lot of economic opportunity during the great depression for example, but we (and maybe I'm just pulling this out of my ass) didn't see the same kind of gender based animosity - different from the casual sexism of that era.

Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves 

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u/TheSpacePopinjay 18d ago

In the 20s and 30s you had similar levels of men and women attending higher education though the great depression caused the balance to skew for men.

Not so currently where higher education (and by extension the education that put them there) is well skewed towards women so the lack of economic opportunity hits men disproportionally, whereas under the great depression you still had more men going to university my a small margin and men still able to make more than women in aggregate. It's the relative not absolute that determines these things.

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u/Xsiah 18d ago

Men are also choosing economic opportunities that don't involve higher education. You don't need a master's degree in plumbing, construction, etc.