Author:
Mazur Allan,Conant Beverlie
Abstract
A proposal to site a nuclear waste repository near Syracuse, New York became the focus of a shortlived controversy. We interviewed a sample of local residents near the height of the publicity and then nearly four months later, after the publicity had died away. Men were three times more likely than women to be aware of the controversy. However, exposure to the controversy had a greater effect on women than on men, moving female attitudes against the repository. Attitudes formed during the peak of publicity persisted over time, particularly among men. We speculate on the causes of these various sex differences, suggesting that they are based on our cultural expectation that men should know politics and technology, and women need not.
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,General Social Sciences,History
Cited by
13 articles.
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