Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2020

Journal / Book Title

Politics and Gender

Abstract

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, men have been consistently less likely to report wearing a protective face mask. There are several possible reasons for this difference, including partisanship and gender identity. Using a national live-caller telephone survey that measures gender identity, we show that men's gender identities are strongly related to their views of mask wearing, especially when gender identity is highly salient to the individual. The effects of this interaction of sex and gender are shown to be separate from the effects of partisanship. While partisanship is a significant driver of attitudes about face masks, within partisan groups, men who report completely masculine gender identities are very different from their fellow partisans.

DOI

10.1017/S1743923X20000616

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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Published Citation

Cassino, D., & Besen-Cassino, Y. (2020). Of masks and men? Gender, sex, and protective measures during covid-19. Politics & Gender, 16(4), 1052–1062. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X20000616

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