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- Title
Conformity to Parental Rules: Asymmetric Influences of Father's and Mother's Levels of Education.
- Authors
van der Slik, Frans W. P.; de Graaf, Nan Dirk; Gerris, Jan R. M.
- Abstract
The article presents information on a study that examined the relative effects of both parents' educational levels on their child-rearing values. The rejection of the status maximalization hypothesis implies that equal educational opportunities for both sexes will not automatically lead to more equal balanced power relationships between husband and wife. Analyses reveal that even when a wife is in an advanced educational position as compared to her husband, this does not lead to an increasing impact on her own as well as her husband's conformity scores. Gender-based expectations of a future partner might have set the stage for such asymmetric power relationships. However, the relatively low rate of female labour participation in the Netherlands could be responsible for the existence of male dominance as well. It might be argued that the term male dominance overstates the case. It might be pointed out, for instance, that for the wife's conformity scores, the relative effect of her own education balances the effect of the education of her husband. There are, however, clear indications for the existence of male dominance with regard to the husbands' scores on conformity.
- Subjects
CHILD rearing; PARENT-child relationships; CHILD care; SPOUSES' legal relationship; SOCIOLOGY; SOCIAL sciences
- Publication
European Sociological Review, 2002, Vol 18, Issue 4, p489
- ISSN
0266-7215
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/esr/18.4.489