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Perceptions of Social Mobility, Gender, and Progressive Politics.
Briitta van Staalduinen1, Delia Zollinger2
1University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
Comparative Political Studies
|September 2, 2025
Summary
Upwardly mobile women do not necessarily hold progressive political views. However, women who perceive collective upward momentum advocate for gender equality, unlike men who accept the status quo.
Area of Science:
- Sociology
- Political Science
- Gender Studies
Background:
- Social mobility research often overlooks women's experiences.
- Upwardly mobile women are presumed progressive but understudied.
- Conflict over socio-cultural issues impacts social mobility.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how women perceive their social mobility and its relation to political attitudes.
- To explore the political implications of women's individual and collective trajectories.
- To compare women's and men's perspectives on social mobility and gender equality.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of survey data from four West European countries.
- Examination of individual and collective social mobility perceptions.
- Correlation of mobility experiences with opportunity perceptions and political attitudes.
Main Results:
- Individual upward mobility correlates with positive opportunity perceptions for both men and women.
- Women's individual mobility does not predict more progressive attitudes than men's.
- A sense of collective upward momentum among women drives demands for gender equality.
Conclusions:
- Individual social mobility alone does not foster progressive political views in women.
- Perceived collective progress is a key driver for women's political engagement on gender equality.
- Men, even upwardly mobile ones, tend to accept the existing male-dominated social structure.
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