Replication Data for: Stereotyping Women with Sympathy: Youth Political Socialization in Mixed-Gender Environments

Youth is a critical period where future citizens can develop both gender stereotypes and sympathy for gender out-groups. In this article, I draw attention to
an under-studied aspect of youth socialization, gender compositions of peer environments, and theorize that it influences stereotyping of women in political
roles as well as political sympathy for gender out-groups. To test this theory,
I use a natural experiment in Korea: the quasi-random assignment of students
to co-ed and single-gender secondary schools. Collaborating with a provincial
office of education, I field an original survey of adolescents in this setting and
obtain comprehensive records of school assignment processes to calculate each
respondent’s probability to be assigned to either type of school. Controlling for
this with inverse propensity score weighting, I show that adolescents assigned to
mixed-gender environments express higher support for policies that imply sympathy with gender out-groups, but also exhibit more intense socialization to gender
stereotypes with larger gender gaps in political engagement and a stronger tendency to use gender labels when evaluating politicians. Together, these results
suggest mixed-gender environments can lead to sympathetic but stereotyping political attitudes regarding gender, while single-gender environments can produce
less sympathetic but less stereotyping gender-related political attitudes. This
demonstrates that gender stereotyping of women in political roles and sympathy towards gender out-groups are distinct dimensions of political attitudes, and
there can be trade-offs between them in the effects of a socialization environment.