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Gender, socioeconomic status, and COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy in the US: An intersectionality approach

Gender, socioeconomic status, and COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy in the US: An intersectionality... Previous research on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) vaccine hesitancy lacks a gender perspective, and it is unclear whether gender intersects with socioeconomic status to co‐produce inequalities in people's intent to take vaccines. The current study draws on intersectionality theory and uses data from the 2021 US Household Pulse Survey (n = 50,359). Both bivariate and multivariate statistical analyses were conducted. The results suggest that American women had a higher vaccine hesitancy rate than men. Gender interacts with socioeconomic status to shape people's vaccine hesitancy in a complex way. Specifically, women living in poverty or currently working were more vaccine‐hesitant, while poverty and employment status did not affect men's vaccine hesitancy. However, not having a college education contributed to both women's and men's COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy. Moreover, women were more worried about the safety of the vaccine, but men's hesitancy tended to be driven by lower perceptions of COVID‐19 dangers and belief in conspiratorial claims. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Sociology of Health & Illness Wiley

Gender, socioeconomic status, and COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy in the US: An intersectionality approach

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Wiley
Copyright
© 2022 Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness.
ISSN
0141-9889
eISSN
1467-9566
DOI
10.1111/1467-9566.13474
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Abstract

Previous research on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) vaccine hesitancy lacks a gender perspective, and it is unclear whether gender intersects with socioeconomic status to co‐produce inequalities in people's intent to take vaccines. The current study draws on intersectionality theory and uses data from the 2021 US Household Pulse Survey (n = 50,359). Both bivariate and multivariate statistical analyses were conducted. The results suggest that American women had a higher vaccine hesitancy rate than men. Gender interacts with socioeconomic status to shape people's vaccine hesitancy in a complex way. Specifically, women living in poverty or currently working were more vaccine‐hesitant, while poverty and employment status did not affect men's vaccine hesitancy. However, not having a college education contributed to both women's and men's COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy. Moreover, women were more worried about the safety of the vaccine, but men's hesitancy tended to be driven by lower perceptions of COVID‐19 dangers and belief in conspiratorial claims.

Journal

Sociology of Health & IllnessWiley

Published: Jun 1, 2022

Keywords: COVID‐19; gender; socioeconomic status; vaccine hesitancy

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