Stability and change in role innovation and life plans

Tangri, Sandra S.; Jenkins, Sharon Rae

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“…The sample of nonactivist women was drawn from the fourth wave of the Women's Life Paths Study, a longitudinal study of women from the University of Michigan Class of 1967, initiated in 1967 by Sandra Tangri (Tangri & Jenkins, 1986). As had been done for the activist sample, current addresses for the alumnae were obtained with assistance from the university's alumni association.…”

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“…To explore these questions, we collected data from University of Michigan alumnae known to have been student activists in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At the same time, we conducted a follow-up panel in a longitudinal study of women graduates of the Michigan class of 1967 (Tangri & Jenkins, 1986); this provided a comparison sample of women who attended the same university at about the same time, but who were selected regardless of activist status.…”

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Political Participation and Feminist Consciousness Among Women Activists of the 1960s

Cole

Zucker

Ostrove

1998

Political Psychology

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This paper examined the hypothesis that women who took part in student movements of the 1960s would be distinguishable from their contemporaries in terms of political ideology, political behavior, and feminism in middle age. Women who had been identified as student activists in public records during the late 1960s and early 1970s were compared to a sample of nonactivist peers. Although the two groups scored similarly on variables related to work and family arrangements, former activists scored higher on measures of leftist political orientation and political efficacy, reported greater political salience and collectivism, and reported greater current political participation. Although both groups reported high levels of feminist consciousness and identity, activists scored significantly higher. The difficulty of politically mobilizing women to combat gender discrimination is discussed in light of the discrepancy between consciousness and activism in the comparison group.

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Political Participation and Feminist Consciousness Among Women Activists of the 1960s

Cole

Zucker

Ostrove

1998

Political Psychology

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“…Similarly, maternal employment research has indicated that a husband's willingness to share housework and child care is the single most important factor in decreasing stress for working mothers (Hoffman, 1989). Tangri and Jenkins (1986) reported that a supportive male (father, boyfriend) also contributes to a woman feeling that she has the option to choose a nontraditional career. Lamb, Pleck, and Levine (1987) studied the effect of paternal involvement on the fathers themselves.…”

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Fathering is a Feminist Issue

Silverstein

1996

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Feminist theory has not yet addressed the ways in which the ideology of fatherhood has contributed to interlocking inequalities for women in both the workplace and family life. This paper is an effort to inject a feminist voice into the redefinition of fathering, which I see as essential both to the achievement of equality for women and to the reconstruction of the masculine gender role. I begin by describing how our unconscious gender ideology pressures all families to become traditional patriarchal families. I address feminist concerns about the dangers of over‐valuing fathers’contributions to child development. I review the research evidence on whether fathers have the same potential for nurturing as mothers, and examine gay fathering in particular. Finally, I suggest that redefining fathering to emphasize nurturing as well as providing will place attachment and connection at the center of gender socialization for men. Masculinity would then become much less oppressive for men as well as for women.

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“…These women were generally slightly younger than Radcliffe women, partly because they graduated a little later (1967 vs. 1964 for the White women, and even later for the African American women, who were sampled across several classes because of the low diversity of earlier classes—1967–1973), and the follow-up was earlier (1992 vs. 1996). Further details regarding the sample are discussed in Cole and Stewart (1996), and Tangri and Jenkins (1986). Analyses conducted on basic demographic data (age, marital status, children, income, hours worked) showed that Radcliffe women differed from WLPS women only on race (already described) and age.…”

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The road not taken: Women’s life paths and gender-linked personality traits

Newton

Stewart

2013

Journal of Research in Personality

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Key studies have established an association between women's social roles and their midlife personalities. The current research expands our understanding by examining personality traits in midlife women who followed normative or non-normative life paths. The normative/non-normative distinction was based on two kinds of social roles that college-educated women undertook until midlife: work and family. Gender-linked personality traits were compared between (1) women in high status professions and women in moderate status professions; (2) women without children and women with children; and (3) single mothers and married mothers. Composite measures of gender-linked traits, based on expert-identified Q-sort items, were used. Each non-normative social role group exhibited a different pattern of gender-linked personality traits inconsistent with conventional female gender roles.

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Stability and change in role innovation and life plans

Cited by 42 publications

References 5 publications

Political Participation and Feminist Consciousness Among Women Activists of the 1960s

Political Participation and Feminist Consciousness Among Women Activists of the 1960s

Fathering is a Feminist Issue

The road not taken: Women’s life paths and gender-linked personality traits

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