Gender Flexibility, but not Equality: Young Adults’ Division of Labor Preferences
| Autor: | Joanna R. Pepin, Brittany N. Dernberger |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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division of labor
050402 sociology family Inequality working parents media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:HM401-1281 0504 sociology inequalities Perception 050602 political science & public administration Openness to experience gender media_common attitudes 05 social sciences General Social Sciences Flexibility (personality) Latent class model 0506 political science lcsh:Sociology (General) Work (electrical) Demographic economics Monitoring the Future Psychology Division of labour |
| Zdroj: | Sociological Science, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 36-56 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2330-6696 |
| Popis: | Rising acceptance of mothers' labor force participation is often considered evidence of increased support for gender equality. This approach overlooks perceptions of appropriate behavior for men and gender dynamics within families. We use nationally representative data of 12th-grade students from Monitoring the Future surveys (1976 to 2014) to evaluate changes in youths' preferred division of labor arrangements. Over this period, contemporary young people exhibited greater openness to a variety of division of labor scenarios for their future selves as parents, although the husband-as-earner/wife-as-homemaker arrangement remained most desired. Using latent class analysis, we identify six configurations of gender attitudes: conventionalists, neotraditionalists, conventional realists, dual earners, intensive parents, and strong intensive parents. There are no gender egalitarian configurations—exhibiting equal support for both parents’ time at work and time at home. Our findings indicate researchers must distinguish between adoption of gender egalitarian principles and gender flexibility in dividing time at work and at home. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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