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Gender Intersections And Environmental Concern, Carmel E. Price, Stephanie A. Bohon
Gender Intersections And Environmental Concern, Carmel E. Price, Stephanie A. Bohon
CSSJ Working Papers
The work presented here provides an exploration into the complexities of gender when considered in conjunction with other socio-demographic variables. Our goal is to look at how gender moderates several socio-demographic characteristics (age, race, class, education, political orientation, residence, marital status, number of children, religious beliefs, and scientific knowledge) as these characteristics predict several measures of environmental concern. Previous researchers suggest that inconsistencies in findings regarding gender as a predictor of environmental concern are largely due to differences in question wording and the various types of environmental concern that can be measured. We do not disagree that the framing of …