Davis, Shannon N.
Gender Ideology Construction From Adolescence to Young Adulthood
Social Science Research 36,3 (September 2007): 1021-1041.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X06000688
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Academic Press, Inc.
Keyword(s): Attitudes; Gender Attitudes/Roles; Religion; Self-Esteem; Transition, Adulthood;

This paper updates and extends research examining the origins of adolescent beliefs about gender. Although previous research noted the importance of maternal attitudes on adolescent beliefs, more recent attempts to model adolescent and young adult gender ideology have been limited in the kinds of intergenerational models tested. Using latent curve modeling and recent survey data from children of a nationally representative sample of women in the United States, I demonstrate that current family context is the most crucial component of adolescent and young adult gender ideology. Egalitarian mothers are more likely to have egalitarian children, although maternal ideologies have little effect on ideology change over time. Young women are more egalitarian than are young men, and this difference diminishes over time. As adolescents age, current life experiences are better predictors of gender ideology than are characteristics of family of origin. There is little evidence that the recent historical trends toward more egalitarian gender ideologies have abated.

Davis, Shannon N.
Greenstein, Theodore N.
Interactive Effects of Gender Ideology and Age at First Marriage on Women's Marital Disruption
Journal of Family Issues 25,5 (July 2004): 658-683.
Also: http://jfi.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/25/5/658
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Age at First Marriage; Attitudes; Divorce; Gender; Marital Disruption; Marriage; Sex Roles; Women's Roles;

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A sample of ever-married women from the NLSY79 is analyzed to examine the effects of age at first marriage and gender ideology on the likelihood of experiencing marital disruption. The authors hypothesize that age at first marriage will have no effect on the likelihood of experiencing marital disruption for non-traditional women, but that there will be a strong negative effect for traditional women. The authors use the log-rate model for piecewise-constant rates to estimate the log odds of respondents' hazard for experiencing a marital disruption separately for each of the three gender ideology groups. Findings suggest that age at first marriage affects women's likelihood of marital disruption contingent upon gender ideology. It is suggested that gender ideology is a lens through which women view the world and make decisions and that within each ideology category the factors that affect likelihood of divorce may differ as a result.

Davis, Shannon N.
Pearce, Lisa D.
Adolescents' Work-Family Gender Ideologies and Educational Expectations
Sociological Perspectives 50,2 (Summer 2007): 249-271.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/sop.2007.50.2.249
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: University of California Press
Keyword(s): Attitudes; Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Family Structure; Gender Attitudes/Roles; Gender Differences; Religion; Religious Influences; Self-Esteem;

Much empirical research has been devoted to examining how early life socialization and experiences shape adolescent aspirations. This article adds to this body of research by examining adolescent educational expectations at a crucial developmental stage with a focus on ideational processes. The authors test hypotheses derived from the Eccles et al. model of achievement-related choices regarding links between the previously neglected concept of work-family gender ideology and expected educational attainment. Using recent survey data from children of a nationally representative sample of women in the United States, the authors demonstrate a positive relationship between gender egalitarianism views of gendered work and family roles makes one more likely to desire a college education and a graduate or professional degree, although the relationship is stronger for girls than for boys. The authors' findings suggest the pivotal role of work-family gender ideologies in shaping adolescents' educational expectations and more generally highlight the importance of ideology and worldview in the construction of status attainment goals.

Davis, Shannon N.
Wills, Jeremiah B.
Adolescent Gender Ideology Socialization: Direct and Moderating Effects of Fathers' Beliefs.
Sociological Spectrum 30,5 (September 2010): 580-604.
Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02732173.2010.496106
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keyword(s): Data Linkage (also see Record Linkage); Fathers, Influence; Gender Attitudes/Roles; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mother's Influence; Religion; Religious Influences; Sex Roles; Sociability/Socialization/Social Interaction;

Previous research examining the intergenerational transmission of gender ideology focuses generally on the influence of mothers' beliefs. This article extends the understanding of gender ideology construction and transmission in two important ways. Utilizing data from the child sample of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (N = 206), we examine the construction of adolescent gender ideology via mothers' and fathers' gender beliefs. Further, we consider the interaction between maternal and paternal ideologies as they influence adolescent ideology. Findings suggest that paternal ideology plays a strong role in adolescent ideology formation, both directly and as a moderator of maternal influence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Pearce, Lisa D.
Davis, Shannon N.
Religion, Work-Family Gender Ideology, and Fertility
Presented: Los Angeles, CA, Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meetings, March-April 2006
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Childbearing, Premarital/Nonmarital; Family Formation; Fertility; Gender Differences; Religion; Religious Influences;

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Given evidence suggesting (1) that religiosity and work-family gender ideology are related to childbearing; and (2) variance in religious institutions' promotion of gendered patterns of family organization, this paper explores whether work-family gender ideology is a mechanism through which religious affiliation and/or practice influences childbearing. Using NLSY79 data, we evaluate how childhood religious affiliation, adult religious service attendance, and attitudes towards gendered family roles relate to the hazard of first premarital and marital births. We find that work-family gender ideologies somewhat mediate the elevated risk of a premarital birth for those raised Evangelical Protestant but not the negative relationship between religious service attendance and the risk of a premarital birth. Work-family gender ideology is negatively related to timing of first marital birth and does not mediate observed religion-fertility relationships. Our findings further elucidate relationships between religion and family formation and how attitudes toward gendered family organization might factor in the process.