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Sex Differences in the Acceptability of Discrimination

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Edward J. McCaffery

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

A large telephone survey conducted after the attacks of September 11, 2001, suggests that the willingness to tolerate discrimination varies significantly across domains, with a very high tolerance of discrimination against poorly educated immigrants and a strikingly low tolerance of discrimination against the genetically disadvantaged. Regardless of domain, tolerance is greater among men than among women. A survey conducted simultaneously over the World Wide Web, using volunteer panels, replicated the phone survey results and revealed an even larger sex gap. This finding suggests that a social desirability bias leads women to overstate and men to understate their tolerance of discrimination in public.

Key Words: discrimination • sex differences • surveys • public opinion • social desirability bias

This version was published on June 1, 2008

Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 2, 228-238 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1065912907304500


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