Trends in United States Men's and Women's Sex-Role Attitudes: 1972 to 1978

Cherlin, Andrew J.; Walters, Pamela Barnhouse

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“…Most researchers agree that gender role attitudes change as people grow older (e.g., Cheling & Walters, 1981;Lynott & McCandless, 2000;Spence & Hahn, 1997;Thornton & Freedman, 1979;Twenge, 1997). Fan and Marini (2000) found that gender role attitudes during the transition to adulthood were stable, but both men and women "experienced change in an egalitarian direction with age," and young men experienced "more change than young women, making their attitudes more similar to those of young women over time" (p. 258).…”

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Gender Role Egalitarian Attitudes Among Chinese College Students

Zhang

2006

Sex Roles

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This study was designed to examine the relationships between gender role egalitarian attitudes and gender, age, parents' education and occupations, anticipated age of marriage and child bearing, desired family size, career choices, and preference for sex of the children among 470 Chinese college students. Statistically significant relationships were observed between gender role egalitarian attitudes and gender, age, and anticipated age of marriage and childbearing. There were no relationships between gender role egalitarian attitudes and preference for sex of the children, desired family size, parents' education and occupation, and Chinese students' career choices.Keywords Gender role egalitarian attitude . Chinese college students . Parents' education and occupation . Anticipated age of marriage and childbearing . Career choice Although studies of gender role attitudes have flourished, research on gender role attitudes in the United States has missed a cross-cultural or international perspective (Suzuki, 1991). Few researchers have examined Chinese college students' gender role egalitarian attitudes (e.g.

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Section: Demographic Characteristicsmentioning

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Gender Role Egalitarian Attitudes Among Chinese College Students

Zhang

2006

Sex Roles

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“…There has been a long-term societal shift from "traditional" gender-role attitudes (stressing a dichotomy between the male breadwinner and female homemaker-mother roles) toward shared roles and egalitarianism. This documented shift in attitudes began in the late 1950s, accelerated during the 1960s and early 1970s, and has continued through the 1990s (Bianchi and Casper 2000;Cherlin and Walters 1981;Thornton and Freedman 1979). These attitudinal shifts have been broad and have involved a convergence among all segments of the population, not simply among the more highly educated or politically liberal, one gender, or a particular race (DiMaggio, Evans, and Bryson 1996).…”

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Emerging Parental Gender Indifference? Sex Composition of Children and the Third Birth

Pollard

Morgan²

2002

American Sociological Review

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For much of the twentieth century, parents in the United States with two children of the same sex were more likely to have a third child than were parents with one son and one daughter, that is, there was an effect of the sex of previous children on the occurrence of a third birth. Using multiple cycles of the Current Population Survey and National Survey of Family Growth, the authors examine the strength of this effect on both fertility behavior and intentions over multiple decades. Changes in the societal gender system are expected to weaken this pronatalist effect in recent periods. Consistent with this expectation, there has been some attenuation of the effect of sex composition of previous children on the third birth, suggesting declining salience of children's gender for parents.Along and fruitful sociological tradition links demographic differences and changes to institutional structure and change. For example, Durkheim's ([1897] 1951) classic study linked differential suicide rates to institutional differences between Protestants and Catholics. Likewise, differential child mortality for boys and girls and unusual sex ratios among children provide evidence of differential treatment of children, even when indigenous people claim that it does not exist (Dyson and Moore 1983;Johansson and Nygren 1991). Racial and gender inequality in the United States are tracked by demographic measures of income inequality (Bianchi and Spain 1986; Farley and Allen 1987) and by measures of segregation in housing or occupations (Jacobs 1989;Massey and Denton 1993). The unobtrusiveness and behavioral basis of demographic indicators are important strengths: Although attitudinal surveys suggest respondents' views may be changing, behavioral data provide an assessment less influenced by normative response bias.The current study fits in this tradition. Focusing on data spanning the last 40 years, we ask whether the desire to have both a daughter and a son has disappeared, indicating the basic equivalence, or full substitutability, of sons and daughters. Such a finding would provide strong evidence of emerging gender indifference among parents and clear evidence of greater gender equality in U.S. society.The current study also contributes to a demographic literature that links preferences for sons, daughters, or particular combinations of sons and daughters to fertility levels. More specifically, strong desires for particular sex compositions of children can substantially increase fertility. In the absence of sex preselection, Bongaarts and Potter (1983) show that if couples bear children until they have at least one son, then they will have an average of Direct correspondence to Michael S. Pollard, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708-0088, (mpollard@soc.duke.edu). NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptAm Sociol Rev. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 April 20. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript 1.94 births. If couples stop having children only ...

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“…Bu konu tartışmalı ve çift yönlü doğruluğu olan bir konudur (Cherlin & Walters, 1981). Thorton'un yaptığı araştırmaya göre, boşanmaya yönelik tutumların davranışlara çok az etkisi vardır, buna karşılık boşanmanın davranışlara anlamlı düzeyde etkisi vardır.…”

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Boşanma Nedenlerine Yönelik Tutumlar: Boşanmayı Artırıcı veya Engelleyici Faktörlere Yönelik Tutum Ölçeği Geliştirme Çalışması I

Doğan¹

2016

itobiad

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ÖzBu araştırmanın temel amacı halkın boşanma nedenlerine yönelik tutumlarının araştırılmasıdır. Bu amaçla Türkiye genelinde 33 ilde Şubat 2014 tarihinde araştırma yapılmıştır. Örneklem genişliği % 95 güvenle ve % 2.5 hata payı ile 1.667 kişi bulunmuştur. Bu 33 ilde 18 yaş ve üzeri 1.667 kişiye rastgele (randomsampling) yöntemi ile yüz yüze görüşülerek anket uygulaması yapılmıştır. Verilerin faktör yapısını belirlemek amacıyla açımlayıcı faktör analizi uygulanmış ve analiz sonucunda cevapların dört faktörde toplandığı görülmüştür. Bunlardan birinci faktör "Uyumlu (Conformist)", ikinci faktör "Dindar", üçüncü faktör "Şiddet Karşıtı " ve dördüncü faktör de "Medya Etkisine Tepkili" olarak adlandırılmıştır. Dört faktör toplam varyansın % 70,867'sini açıklamaktadır.Anahtar Kelimler: Boşanma; Tutum; Aile; Boşanma Nedenleri; Boşanma Tutum Ölçeği. The Attitudes towards the Reasons for Divorce: A Study for Development of Attitude Scale towards the Factors Attracting or Preventing the Divorce AbstractThe aim of this study is to analyze the manners of the society towards the reasons for divorce. Therefore, a research was realized in 33 provinces which comprises the whole Turkey in February 2014. The width of the sample was 1.667 people with 95 % confidently and 2.5 % error of margin. A face to face questionnaire was conducted by the random sampling method on 1.667 people who were over 18 years old in these 33 provinces. In order to determine the factor structure of the data, an exploratory factor analysis was implemented and according to the result of the analysis, it is seen that the responses were gathered in four factors. The first factor is "Conformist", the second one is "Religionist", the third one is "Anti-Violence" and the fourth one is "Reactive against the Media Effect". These four factors are explaining the 70,867 % of the total variance.

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Trends in United States Men's and Women's Sex-Role Attitudes: 1972 to 1978

Cited by 162 publications

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Gender Role Egalitarian Attitudes Among Chinese College Students

Gender Role Egalitarian Attitudes Among Chinese College Students

Emerging Parental Gender Indifference? Sex Composition of Children and the Third Birth

Boşanma Nedenlerine Yönelik Tutumlar: Boşanmayı Artırıcı veya Engelleyici Faktörlere Yönelik Tutum Ölçeği Geliştirme Çalışması I

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