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Anticipating Work and Family: Exploring the Associations Among Gender‐Related Ideologies, Values, and Behaviors in Latino and White Families in the United States
Author(s) -
Franco Jamie L.,
Sabattini Laura,
Crosby Faye J.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.0022-4537.2004.00384.x
Subject(s) - egalitarianism , ideology , white (mutation) , psychology , social psychology , perception , developmental psychology , work (physics) , gender studies , sociology , politics , political science , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , law , gene , engineering
This study explores Latina and White women's perceptions of their mother and father's gender‐role ideologies, values, and behaviors concerning work and family intersections. Although Latino and White families in this Northern California, United States sample differed in terms of income and educational attainments, they did not differ in terms of the values they placed on work, marriage, and parenting or in terms of the time spent on work, marriage, and parenting. Among both Latino and White families, fathers and mothers were seen as quite distinct, in sex stereotypic ways. Correspondence between ideologies, values, and behaviors was not strong, either among Latinos or among Whites. It seems safe to conclude that people's attitudinal endorsement of egalitarianism does not assure behavioral endorsement.