Marine POYLO Case Study

POLI 380 – Assignment 4 – Marine POYLO – Student #49573141

On March 25, 2015, speaking at the European Parliament, French euro deputy Dominique Martin, from the Front National (FN), advocated for the “liberty of women not to work” as it would “improve the education of children while releasing jobs.” In sum, sending women back home in order to fight unemployment. Shocked by this statement, I looked up his profile on the Front National’s website and realized that M. Martin studied as the Saint-Cyr, one of the top-universities in France. I thought it was obvious that education and such conservative statements would be incompatible. I take the opportunity of this research to investigate what data say on this topic. I used the American National

I did the same for my primary independent variable “edu_group” which also had some missing values, as well as for “age”, which is one of my other independent variable. For marital status, I also took out the missing values but I also referred to create a new ordinal variable, which I named dummy_marriage, indicating only if the person was never married (0) or is married (1).

 Questions:

Recode Gender Role in The Workplace in the other way around?

Marital Status: is married or ever married?

It is now time to take a bivariate look at the relationship between our primary independent variable and our dependent variable. Through a crosstab,

Yet, to get an accurate estimate of the relationship between education and gender role perceptions, I needed to control for the two other independent variables, which are age and martial status, and I needed to do a multiple regression.

In conclusion, education does impact the way people perceive gender roles in the workplace and in the households. Yet, it has to be kept in mind that this statement results from an average of answer taken from a sample of the US population. Some people, such as the FN euro deputy, might think differently.

Annex: Regression