Men's roles and women's goals: Causes, consequences and complementarity

Abstract

This dissertation explores the possibility that persistent gender inequality in the domestic sphere, wherein women do disproportionately more childcare and housework than men, might explain some of the variance in women's adherence to traditional gender roles. I present three separate papers addressing the broad research topic of gender role complementarity (i.e., how rigid masculinity stereotypes governing men's behavior impact women's possible selves). First, I summarize a study of how the self-views of over 320 ix 4.