Parental gender socialization refers to ways in which parents teach their children social
expectations associated with gender. Relatively little is known about the mechanisms …

The current study utilized longitudinal, self-report data from a sample of 109 dual-earner,
working-class couples and their 6-year-old children living in the northeastern United States …

Gender stereotypes facilitate people's processing of social information by providing
assumptions about expected behaviors and preferences. When gendered expectations are …

Parental attitudes and behaviors can influence gender expression in adolescence. In
particular, previous work surveying parents of pre-adolescents has suggested that parental …

Background For much of my career as a research psychologist, I have considered how
gender is constructed and socialized in the context of social relationships (eg, Leaper, 2000 …

This article reviews and integrates research on gender-related biological, cognitive, and
social processes that take place in or between family members, resulting in a newly …

While family studies research has noted that 70 per cent of all US homes are comprised of
dual-earning couples (Raley et al., 2006), and that fathers are increasing their active role in …

Young children search for cues about gender—who should or should not do a particular
activity, who can play with whom, and why girls and boys are different. From a vast array of …

Processes like gender socialization (the ways in which parents convey information to their
children about how girls and boys should behave) often happen unconsciously and might …

Introduction: Today's adolescents are growing up in a unique sociocultural climate in which
gender issues are highly prominent. Alongside new ways of understanding gender identity …