Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
Springer Nature
Source Publication
Sex Roles
Source ISSN
0360-0025
Abstract
The current study examines the nature of actions that U.S. college women (N = 267) engage in to promote, protect, or enhance the welfare of other women. The study had two goals: 1) to distinguish between traditional forms of action (traditional collective action) and more informal, interpersonal, forms of action (small acts) among college women; and 2) to test whether the classic antecedents of collective action (gender identity, feminist identity, women’s activist identity, efficacy, appraisals of gender inequality, and injustice standards) are differentially predictive of these two types of participation. A confirmatory factor analysis provided strong support for these two distinct forms of participation: traditional collective action and small acts. Moreover, whereas women’s activist identity was the only predictor of traditional collective action, all predictors except gender identification and perceived group efficacy predicted small acts. Practical and theoretical implications for mobilizing college women for traditional collective action versus small acts are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Miron, Anca M.; Ball, Thomas C.; Branscombe, Nyla R.; Fieck, Monica; Ababei, Cristinel; Raymer, Serena; Tkaczuk, Baylee; and Meives, Megan M., "Collective Action on Behalf of Women: Testing the Conceptual Distinction Between Traditional Collective Action and Small Acts in College Women" (2022). Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications. 726.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/electric_fac/726
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Comments
Accepted version. Sex Roles, Vol. 86, No. 7-8 (2022): 415-427. DOI. © 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Used with permission.