A Life-Changing Event: First Births and Men's and Women's Attitudes to Mothering and Gender Divisions of Labor
A Life-Changing Event: First Births and Men's and Women's Attitudes to Mothering and Gender Divisions of Labor
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DOI：
10.1093/sf/sou103
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发表时间：
2015-03-01
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Western, Mark
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作者：
Baxter, Janeen;Buchler, Sandra;Western, Mark
先前的研究表明，向父母身份的过渡是人生过程中的一个关键阶段。利用澳大利亚家庭、收入和劳动力动态调查和固定效应面板回归模型的数据，我们调查了男性和女性在向父母身份过渡后对母亲和性别分工的态度的变化。主要调查结果表明，在个人经历了第一个孩子的出生后，态度变得更加传统，男性和女性都更有可能支持母亲作为女性在生活中最重要的角色。我们认为，这些变化是由于身份和认知信念的变化与成为父母的经验，以及制度安排，支持传统的性别分工。更广泛地说，我们的研究结果可以被视为强有力的证据，表明态度在整个生命过程中并不稳定，并随着生活事件的经历而变化。
Previous research has shown that the transition to parenthood is a critical life-course stage. Using data from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey and fixed-effects panel regression models, we investigate changes in men's and women's attitudes to mothering and gender divisions of labor following the transition to parenthood. Key findings indicate that attitudes become more traditional after individuals experience the birth of their first child, with both men and women becoming more likely to support mothering as women's most important role in life. We argue that these changes are due to both changes in identity and cognitive beliefs associated with the experience of becoming a parent, as well as institutional arrangements that support traditional gender divisions. More broadly, our results can be taken as strong evidence that attitudes are not stable over the life course and change with the experience of life events.