Longitudinal change in sex role orientations: Differences between men and women

McBroom, William H.

doi:10.1007/bf00292479

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“…But marriage can also have a more egalitarian influence-for Blacks, notably when childless, and for affluent Black women. These findings challenge assertions that marrying has no effect on gender ideology (Cunningham et al 2005) or is only a predictor of women's ideology (McBroom 1987). They also modify findings that marriage is associated with less egalitarian ideology only for parents (Moors 2003).…”

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confidence: 70%

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Gender Ideology Construction

Vespa

2009

Gender & Society

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Using life course and intersectional perspectives, this study examines how changes in life experiences such as marriage, parenthood, and work are associated with changes in individuals' gender ideology. Using longitudinal survey data and fixed effects, findings suggest that exposure to these experiences influences gender ideology, though with greater variation than previous work has detected. Marriage exerts an egalitarian influence on Blacks but a less egalitarian one on whites. Parenthood has a less egalitarian effect for all married parents but an egalitarian one for most unmarried parents. These findings suggest that gender ideology is dynamic and life experiences are important sources of change. Furthermore, this change depends on individuals' race-gender categories and the configuration of life events to which they are exposed. These nuanced findings amend past work by better identifying for whom and under which conditions life experiences shape gender ideology. In doing so, this study illustrates how the conceptual and methodological approaches help us understand gender ideology construction by revealing substantial variation that went undetected in past work. G ender ideology is often used as a substantive predictor in research on gendered behavior and outcomes, such as workforce participation, divorce, marital quality, and fertility (

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Section: Implications For Previous Findingscontrasting

confidence: 70%

“…Past research has shown that marriage is associated with less egalitarian gender ideology (S. Davis 2007;Fan and Marini 2000), while others have suggested a more egalitarian association (McBroom 1987). Both are right, to a degree, and the findings here qualify this apparent contradiction.…”

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confidence: 57%

Gender Ideology Construction

Vespa

2009

Gender & Society

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“…In this study, age was again positively associated with traditional gender role attitudes, but higher levels of education led to less traditional views. And, when examining the gender role orientations of women and men over a five year period, McBroom (1987) found that women expressed less traditional gender role attitudes, but suggested that such change was equated with life experiences. As McBroom (1987, p. 449) stated: ''women change in other attitudinal dimensions to be sure, but the change seems to be importantly tied to their immediate life experiences such as changes in employment, marital status, or fertility.''…”

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confidence: 96%

The Impact of Age vs. Life Experience on the Gender Role Attitudes of Women in Different Cohorts

Lynott

McCandless

2000

Journal of Women & Aging

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Much research has concluded that the gender role attitudes of older women are more traditional in orientation. This line of research, however, has often confounded the impact of age and cohort. Consequently, cohort differences in life experiences have not been systematically explored. This study addresses the relationship between age and gender role attitudes, taking into account the potential mediating effects of life experiences and controlling for cohort. The conclusions suggest that the impact of age on gender role attitudes is not as strong as might be expected. Rather, the results show that the life experiences of different cohorts are better predictors of gender role attitudes among older women, though such experiences do not have the same impact on all women.

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“…A mother, in particular, may be motivated to have sons share traditional female household chores, believing that it is her responsibility to train her sons to participate more equitably than the husbands of her cohort. Thus, the sex-role ideology perspective would argue that the effect of current family type should be stronger for sons, since boys typically perform fewer household chores than girls, and the more liberal sex-role attitudes of mothers in dual-earner families (Huber and Spitze, 1981;McBroom, 1987) would lead them to expect their sons to share household work. Thus: TA: Children in dual-earner families should perform more housework than children in traditional families.…”

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confidence: 97%