How Gender Ideology Affects the Public Attitude towards the Common Prosperity Policy?

Abstract

Most of the existing studies on common prosperity policy in academia use qualitative research methods to explore how to achieve common prosperity policy, but there are few quantitative studies on public attitudes and other aspects, while public policy response attitudes are of great significance to policy implementation. This paper explores the mechanism of its influence on public attitude towards the income level gap by introducing the variable of gender ideology through the analysis of data from the 2020 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) with a socialist feminist perspective. It is found that gender ideology significantly influences public attitude towards closing the income gap, and the more modern the gender ideology is, the more positive individuals’ attitude towards closing the income level gap is. In addition, gender ideology plays a masking role in the effects of age and education on public attitude towards the income level gap and a mediating role in the effects of social class on public attitude towards the income level gap. Therefore, the modernization of gender ideology is important for improving the public response to the common prosperity policy in China.