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Table 6 Post-vote survey: correlation between the probability to vote yes and attitudes towards gender equality

From: How the provision of childcare affects attitudes towards maternal employment

Bill

Mat. leave I

Mat. leave II

Fam. pol.

Fam. init.

Gender equality

0.17***

0.19***

0.17***

0.07

 

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.05)

Age/10

− 0.22**

0.00

− 0.04

0.20**

 

(0.10)

(0.09)

(0.10)

(0.10)

Age2

0.02*

− 0.00

0.00

− 0.01

 

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.01)

Tertiary educ.

0.03

0.11*

0.09*

− 0.00

 

(0.06)

(0.06)

(0.05)

(0.06)

Female

0.07

− 0.02

0.05

0.08*

 

(0.04)

(0.04)

(0.05)

(0.05)

Employed

0.11**

0.02

0.00

0.12**

 

(0.05)

(0.05)

(0.06)

(0.06)

Income CHF 5,000−11,000

− 0.03

− 0.00

− 0.00

0.09*

 

(0.05)

(0.05)

(0.05)

(0.05)

Income > CHF 11,000

− 0.02

− 0.02

− 0.14

0.20**

 

(0.06)

(0.07)

(0.10)

(0.09)

Retired

− 0.01

− 0.02

0.00

0.13

 

(0.09)

(0.10)

(0.09)

(0.09)

Married

0.01

0.00

0.11**

− 0.14***

 

(0.05)

(0.05)

(0.05)

(0.05)

Constant

0.79***

0.62***

0.46*

− 0.19

 

(0.23)

(0.20)

(0.26)

(0.24)

Number of observations

569

469

511

490

R-square

0.07

0.08

0.05

0.06

  1. Correlation between the probability to vote “Yes” in the four bills considered and personal attitudes towards gender equality. Calculations draw on post-vote surveys conducted with a random sample of Swiss voters. The table shows that attitudes towards gender equality are an important driver of vote results in the ballots considered. Gender equality is a dummy variable based on the question “Are you in favor of Switzerland actively promoting female equality to men (survey question A91h ≤ 3) or in favor of Switzerland favoring neither men nor women (survey question 3<A91<=6)