Women who challenge or defend the status quo: Ingroup identities as predictors of progressive and reactionary collective action

Collective action (CA) research looking at gender has focused predominantly on feminist activism, overlooking activism of women who reinforce inequalities and traditional roles (such as supporting men's rights or anti-abortion protesters). Our addresses this oversight, demonstrating the key role identity content in predicting CA support progressive reactionary social change among women. Using two large online samples from US (Study 1: N = 1825) UK 2: 992), we show that identification with ‘women’ is either weakly associated unrelated to thus too broad differentiate between for opposing goals. In contrast, subgroup identities matter: CA, while CA. We discuss implications our findings inequalities.