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Gender Matters? Three Cohorts of Women Talking about Role Reversal

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  • J. Pilcher

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Cohort is an important predictor of gender-role attitudes, as a number of surveys have shown. In this article, I undertake a comparison between cohorts of women on the issue of role reversal, with a primary focus on the qualitative differences in what was said and by whom, rather than in how many said what. It is my argument that a qualitative analysis is revealing of the way in which cohort acts to influence the very language used to report ‘agreement’ or ‘disagreement’ on matters of gender. Via an analysis of responses to an interview question on role reversal, it is shown that historical location via cohort operates to make permissible and/or available, some ways of talking rather than others. Consequently, on the issue of role reversal, gender featured as a more relevant category in the talk of the oldest cohort than in the talk of the younger cohorts.

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  • J. Pilcher, 1998. "Gender Matters? Three Cohorts of Women Talking about Role Reversal," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 3(1), pages 5-16, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:3:y:1998:i:1:p:5-16
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.132
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