*Can We Finish the Revolution? Gender, Work-Family Ideals, and Institutional Constraint
*Can We Finish the Revolution? Gender, Work-Family Ideals, and Institutional Constraint
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DOI：
10.1177/0003122414564008
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发表时间：
2015-02-01
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
Thebaud, Sarah
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作者：
Pedulla, David S.;Thebaud, Sarah
为什么近几十年来在工作场所和家庭中实现性别平等的进展停滞不前？越来越多的学术研究表明，持续存在的性别化工作场所规范和政策限制了男性和女性在家庭中建立性别平等关系的能力。在这篇文章中，我们建立和扩展以前的研究，研究在何种程度上的制度约束，包括工作场所的政策，影响年轻，未婚男性和女性的偏好，他们未来的工作家庭安排。我们还研究了这些影响如何在不同的教育水平。利用原始的调查实验数据，我们问受访者，他们希望如何构建他们未来的关系，而实验操纵的程度下，他们陈述自己的偏好的制度约束。出现了两种明显的模式。第一，由于限制条件被取消，男女可以选择平等的关系，大多数人选择了这一选项，无论性别或教育水平如何。第二，妇女的关系结构偏好比男子更容易通过支持性的工作-家庭政策干预措施消除体制限制。这些研究结果揭示了有关机构在形成工作-家庭偏好方面的作用的重要问题，强调了这样一个概念，即看似性别传统的工作-家庭决定在很大程度上取决于当前工作场所的限制。
Why has progress toward gender equality in the workplace and at home stalled in recent decades? A growing body of scholarship suggests that persistently gendered workplace norms and policies limit men's and women's ability to create gender egalitarian relationships at home. In this article, we build on and extend prior research by examining the extent to which institutional constraints, including workplace policies, affect young, unmarried men's and women's preferences for their future work-family arrangements. We also examine how these effects vary across education levels. Drawing on original survey-experimental data, we ask respondents how they would like to structure their future relationships while experimentally manipulating the degree of institutional constraint under which they state their preferences. Two clear patterns emerge. First, as constraints are removed and men and women can opt for an egalitarian relationship, the majority choose this option, regardless of gender or education level. Second, women's relationship structure preferences are more responsive than men's to the removal of institutional constraints through supportive work-family policy interventions. These findings shed light on important questions about the role of institutions in shaping work-family preferences, underscoring the notion that seemingly gender-traditional work-family decisions are largely contingent on the constraints of current workplaces.