Regarding the lasting androcentric order social gender inequality crosses all subsystems of the social structure. During the socialist period, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, the key institutional bases for its abolition were setup, first of all discrimination against women. This process was otherwise going on 'in the shadow' of threats of the loss of 'proper femininity', which is said to be threatened the most by socialism. After the end of self-managing socialism and the restructuring of society according to the neo-liberal pattern, in the framework of 'modernisation' and via re-catholicisation efforts have been strengthened with regard to womenʼs renewed domestication and their return to their 'natural' role. The article answers the question of how this revived multidimensional misogyny orientationis expressed in the awareness of the adult population. The data collected by ISSP, EVS (within the Slovenian public opinion poll) investigations from 1991 to 2012 show the (partially also gender different) changing of the collective consciousness regarding gender inequality: from the egalitarian orientation through re-traditionalism in the 1990s to the strengthened prevailing egalitarian orientation with some traditionalist additions at the start of the 21st century.
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