Platt, Lucinda 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8251-6400 and Polavieja, Javier
(2016)
Saying and doing gender: intergenerational transmission of attitudes towards the sexual division of labour.
European Sociological Review, 32 (6).
pp. 820-834.
ISSN 0266-7215
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Abstract
The persistence of gender inequalities in the division of paid and unpaid work poses an important question for gender socialization research: what matters most for the intergenerational transmission of gender-role attitudes, parental own attitudes or parental behaviours? Recent explanations in cultural economics suggest that intentional attitudinal transmission is the main driver of cultural reproduction. In line with classical sex-role learning models, we contend, however, that what parents do is at least as important as what parents say for gender-role transmission. Using data for British children aged between 11 and 15 we estimate the independent influence of each of these two socialization channels on children’s attitudes towards the sexual division of labour (ASDL). We show that both parental attitudes and parental behaviours are crucial in the formation of children’s ASDL, and that parental influences are stronger when they operate through same-sex dyads. We also show that mothers’ time out of the labour force is a stronger predictor of children’s ASDL than either mothers’ or fathers’ own attitudes. Finally, analysis of a subset of the children followed into their early adult lives shows that ASDL formed in childhood have significant and lasting consequences for both adults’ gender attitudes and their behaviours.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://esr.oxfordjournals.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2016 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jul 2016 11:43 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Apr 2024 02:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/67302 |
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