Housework, Gender Role Attitudes, and Couples' Fertility Intentions: Reconsidering Men's Roles in Gender Theories of Family Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara S. Okun ◽  
Liat Raz‐Yurovich
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Fertility Intentions ◽  
Family Change ◽  
Gender Theories

scholarly journals The Influence of Internet Usage Frequency on Women’s Fertility Intentions—The Mediating Effects of Gender Role Attitudes

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4784
Author(s):  
Pengcheng Liu ◽  
Jingjing Cao ◽  
Wenjie Nie ◽  
Xiaojie Wang ◽  
Yani Tian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Fertility Intentions ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Negative Binomial Regression Model ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Usage Frequency ◽  
The Family

The purpose of this study is to verify the influence of internet usage frequency on women’s fertility intentions and to examine the mediating effects of gender role attitudes, under the influence of internet usage frequency that affects women’s fertility intentions, combined with the specific Chinese cultural context. A cross-sectional secondary data analysis was conducted using a sample of 3113 women of childbearing age in the Chinese General Social Survey in 2017 (CGSS2017). The results of the negative binomial regression model showed that, under the premise of controlling individual characteristic variables, the higher the frequency of internet usage, the lower the fertility intention (p < 0.01). The results of the mediating effect model show that the more frequently women use the internet, the lower their fertility intentions, and the less they agree with Chinese traditional gender roles, which are “men work outside to support the family while women stay at home to take care of the family”. These findings have implications in formulating public policies aimed at increasing the fertility rate; that is, it is not enough to increase women’s fertility intentions under China’s universal two-child policy. Moreover, public policy formulators need to consider gender role attitudes and the influence of the internet as a method for dissemination of information.

scholarly journals Three dimensions of the relationship between gender role attitudes and fertility intentions

Genus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trude Lappegård ◽  
Gerda Neyer ◽  
Daniele Vignoli
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Fertility Intentions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gender Revolution

AbstractThe relationship between gender role attitudes and fertility intentions is highly debated among social scientists. We emphasize the need for a multidimensional theoretical and empirical approach to extend the two-step behavioral gender revolution approach to a three-step attitudinal gender revolution approach distinguishing between gender roles in the public sphere, mothers’ role in the family, and fathers’ role in the family. Using the Generations and Gender Survey of eight European countries, we demonstrate the usefulness of such an approach. Gender equal attitudes related to the public sphere are more widespread than those concerning mothers’ or fathers’ roles in the family. Our results show that the association between gender role attitudes and fertility intentions varies—in terms of significance and magnitude—according to the dimension considered (gender roles in the public sphere, mothers’ and fathers’ role in the family), gender, parity, and country. We conclude that without a clear concept of and empirical distinction between the various elements of the gender role attitudes/fertility nexus, scientific investigations will continue to send conflicting messages.

Gender Role Attitudes and Eating Disorders in Young Adolescent Guatemalan Girls

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith L. Gibbons ◽  
Jillon S. Vander Wal ◽  
Maria Del Pilar Grazioso
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Young Adolescent
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