Attitudes towards Gender Inequality and Acceptance of Homosexuality: A Study of Chinese Populations - Abstract
With the increased social attention to individual sexual orientation and homosexuality in China, scholars have begun to study how to improve the public acceptance of the non-traditional groups and try to change their adversities. We used a sample of 9,452 cases in the data from the Chinese General Social Survey in 2017 (CGSS 2017) and Stata (15.1) software to explore the impact of gender discrimination on homosexual animosity, with a hope to promote the “de-marginalization” of homosexual groups. By the ordinal logistic model analysis, it is found in most the respondents of the survey, that the stronger the awareness of gender equality, the more acceptance of homosexuality. Women are more likely to accept homosexuality than men, and less educated people are less likely to accept of homosexuality. As other relevant variables, age, political orientation, income, marital status, and internet usage frequency all have significant effects on acceptance of homosexuality.