Explaining the social factors affecting Gendering in the youth of Ardabil city with the approach of structural equation modeling

Gender is the strongest and most important social division. According to feminists, gender is an important social classification like social class, race or religion. Just as socialists use "class politics" in their doctrine, feminists present the theory of "sexual politics". According to feminists, "sexism" is considered as a form of oppression, which is similar to "racism". The aim of the current research was to explain the social factors affecting gender identity in the youth of Ardabil city with the approach of structural equation modeling. The current research is a quantitative research based on the type of data collected. The strategy used in this research is survey. The statistical population of this research consists of young people aged 18-30 living in Ardabil city. A simple random cluster sampling method has been used for sampling, which includes 40 researcher-made questions with a Likert scale. Data analysis was done using SPSS and Lisrel software with structural equation tests.
 The results of the research findings indicate that all the relationships between the research constructs are established and also the value of the fit indices shows the appropriate fit of the model. According to the results of this model, according to the order of the factors (education in the family system with a factor load of 0.59; gender stereotypes and norms 0.57; social acceptance of gender 0.52; teachings of the educational system 0.47; society structure 0.44 and stereotyped gender beliefs (0.42) have an effect on gender identity among the youth of Ardabil city. The factor of upbringing in the family system has the highest influence and the factor of stereotyped gender beliefs is the lowest.