Session Title

Session 3-1-E: Gambling, Culture, and Society

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation

Location

Park MGM, Las Vegas, NV

Start Date

25-5-2023 9:00 AM

End Date

25-5-2023 10:30 AM

Disciplines

Cognition and Perception | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Gender and Sexuality | Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies | Social Psychology

Abstract

This study maps the existing conceptualization of gender in peer-reviewed gambling scholarship to locate areas of future inquiry for a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between gender and gambling. In this study, we located the literature relevant to the conceptualization of gender in gambling published between 2000-2020 by searching eight academic databases using Boolean operators and various key search terms, yielding 31,533 results. After a thorough screening based on inclusion/exclusion criteria and excluding duplicates, we located 2,532 journal publications that addressed gender and gambling. Among them, 53.4% used gender as a descriptive demographic variable, 44.3% explored the comparative analysis between men's and women's gambling behaviours, preferences, and risks, and only 2.3% focused on gender from a socio-cultural perspective. When articles mentioned gender, we found that it was primarily considered a descriptive demographic variable and an indicator of comparative analysis between men and women. Furthermore, the few articles that discussed the socio-cultural aspects of gender were mainly limited to a binary construction of gender. This study concludes that there is a scarcity of socio-cultural studies of gender in gambling scholarship, indicating the need to expand socio-cultural analysis in research on gender and gambling.

Through an in-depth and more comprehensive understanding of gender and gambling, we can fully address the lived realities of the men and women who gamble when making evidence-based recommendations to inform and support prevention practices, reducing gambling harm and risk, intervention protocols, and healthy outcomes of gambling practices and policies.

Keywords

Gambling, gender, sex, masculinities, femininities

Author Bios

Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad is an FRQSC doctoral candidate in Social and Cultural Analysis at Concordia University. Previously, he obtained an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has been working as a faculty member in the Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka, since 2014 and is currently on study leave.

Dr. Lesley Lambo is a Research Associate with the Research Chair on Gambling at Concordia University. She obtained her Doctorate from Concordia University, where her dissertation focused on gender and intimate partner violence, specifically female perpetrators of intimate partner violence. In addition to working with the Research Chair, she is also a part-time faculty member in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University.

Dr. Sylvia Kairouz is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada. She is currently engaged in funded research examining comprehensive, multilevel models of determinants of gambling practices. She has published extensively in sociology, social epidemiology and public health journals and won the Brain Star Award of the Canadian Institute of Health Research for her innovative work on the role of social contexts in addictive consumption.

Funding Sources

Abu Saleh Mohammad Sowad has received scholarship support from Concordia University and was recently awarded a doctoral fellowship from FRQSC. Sylvia Kairouz has received funding from Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC), Mise-sur-toi, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Concordia University, Canadian Funds for Innovation, and Institut Universitaire sur les Dépendances within the past three years. No other funding for the other author.

Competing Interests

The authors declare having no conflicts of interest. There was no direct funding for this project.

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May 25th, 9:00 AM May 25th, 10:30 AM

Mapping the Conceptualization of Gender in Gambling Literature

Park MGM, Las Vegas, NV

This study maps the existing conceptualization of gender in peer-reviewed gambling scholarship to locate areas of future inquiry for a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between gender and gambling. In this study, we located the literature relevant to the conceptualization of gender in gambling published between 2000-2020 by searching eight academic databases using Boolean operators and various key search terms, yielding 31,533 results. After a thorough screening based on inclusion/exclusion criteria and excluding duplicates, we located 2,532 journal publications that addressed gender and gambling. Among them, 53.4% used gender as a descriptive demographic variable, 44.3% explored the comparative analysis between men's and women's gambling behaviours, preferences, and risks, and only 2.3% focused on gender from a socio-cultural perspective. When articles mentioned gender, we found that it was primarily considered a descriptive demographic variable and an indicator of comparative analysis between men and women. Furthermore, the few articles that discussed the socio-cultural aspects of gender were mainly limited to a binary construction of gender. This study concludes that there is a scarcity of socio-cultural studies of gender in gambling scholarship, indicating the need to expand socio-cultural analysis in research on gender and gambling.

Through an in-depth and more comprehensive understanding of gender and gambling, we can fully address the lived realities of the men and women who gamble when making evidence-based recommendations to inform and support prevention practices, reducing gambling harm and risk, intervention protocols, and healthy outcomes of gambling practices and policies.