Navigating between two cultures: immigrants' gender attitudes toward working women

Abstract: Background: Gender attitudes toward women’s employment are of particular importance because they positively influence gender-equal outcomes in the labor market. Our understanding of the mechanisms that promote egalitarian gender attitudes among immigrants, however, remains limited. Objective: By studying first- and second-generation immigrants from multiple origins and living in different countries, this article seeks to explain under what conditions the prevalent cultural attitudes toward gender roles at the origin and destination influence immigrants' gender attitudes. We address three main research questions. First, does the country-of-origin gender ideology influence immigrants' views toward working women? Second, does the country-of-destination gender ideology influence immigrants' views toward working women? And third, are these relationships moderated by (1) the immigrant generation; (2) the age at arrival in the country of destination; (3) the length of residence at the destinat

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Demographic Research ; 38 (2018) ; 967-1016

Klassifikation
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2018
Urheber
Pessin, Léa
Arpino, Bruno

DOI
10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.35
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019052811474415914573
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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