MOTHERS' GENDER SOCIALIZATION ACROSS CULTURE
The focus of our work on gender socialization examines how mothers’ socialize gender with their children and adolescents and draws from a five-year longitudinal mixed-method study of 250 Black, Latino, Asian, and White mothers and children in the U.S. and a ten-year longitudinal mixed-method study of over 1200 mothers and children in Nanjing, China. We aim to examine: (1) how mothers both accommodate and resist mainstream messages about being a girl or a boy with their daughters and sons; and (2) the variation in strategies of socialization by age, nationality, ethnicity, gender, and other social identities of their children.
Team Members
- Niobe Way
- Esther Sin
- Anna Bennet
- Nikole Grulla
- Sara H. Kazi
- Susan Rydz
- Katie Deangelis
- Albert Shen
- Yoojin Lee
- Daisy Song
- Katie Semple
- Stephanie Steinberg
Publications
McFadden, K. E., Way, N., & Hughes, D. L. (under review). Mothers endorsement of gender-typed values and activities and its academic correlates among adolescents. Sex Roles. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2016
Presentations
Sin, E.J., Rydz, S., Grulla, N., Bennet, A., Kazi, S.H., & Way, N. (2016, April). Mothers’ socialization of gender with adolescent daughters: A qualitative study. Poster presented at the 2016 Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MD.