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Publication Date: 2011-Sep
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The Effect of a Child's Sex on Support for Traditional Gender Roles
Shafer, Emily Fitzgibbons; Malhotra, Neil
Social Forces, v90 n1 p209-222 Sep 2011
We examine whether sex of child affects parents' beliefs about traditional gender roles. Using an improved methodological approach that explicitly analyzes the natural experiment via differences in differences, we find that having a daughter (vs. having a son) causes men to reduce their support for traditional gender roles, but a female child has no such effect among women, representing less than 4 percent of the size of the standard deviation of the attitude scale.
Descriptors: Sex Role, Gender Differences, Stereotypes, Parent Attitudes, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Daughters, Sons, Males, Females, Attitude Measures
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