The Multidimensionality of Adolescent Girls’ Gender Attitudes

Gender Issues ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristyn Kamke ◽  
Laura Widman ◽  
Hannah Javidi
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Gender Attitudes

scholarly journals Adolescent Girls in Guatemala: Can an Empowerment Program Change Perceptions of Gender Equity, Aspirations, and Communication?

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-33
Author(s):  
Amita Vyas ◽  
Hannah Low ◽  
Nitasha Nagaraj
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Gender Attitudes ◽  
Pilot Program ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Program Change

While Guatemala has made great strides towards gender equality, it remains a country with vast disparities. Gender sensitization and empowerment programs during adolescence when gender attitudes are formed have the potential to diminish gender inequities. The Girl Rising Pilot Program (GR) is a 24-week curriculum designed for adolescent girls living in the Sololá region where 95% of the total population is indigenous and Mayan. The present pilot study evaluated outcomes of the GR Guatemala pilot program. Specifically, the evaluation examined whether there were differences between baseline and follow-up on perceptions of gender equity, aspirations, and communication for adolescent girls who participated in the GR program. A quasi-experimental study design with a one group pre- and post-test was implemented. The pilot evaluation study included all 265 participants at baseline who participated in the GR program. after controlling for significant variables, it was found that the gender equitable attitudes score and communications scale still significantly increased between baseline and follow-up. The results of this evaluation prove that gender sensitization programs play a key role in forming and changing gender attitudes during adolescence, and have the potential to alter their short and long-term attitudes and beliefs.

Gendered Housework Among Adolescents in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110380
Author(s):  
Ashley Larsen Gibby
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
South India ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Gender Attitudes ◽  
Socialization Theory ◽  
Time Diary ◽  
Diary Data ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
Gender Revolution

Although an in-depth body of literature has explored the gendered lives of children in India, little is known about adolescents. Utilizing 24-hour time diary data from South India, this study examined how girls’ ( n = 554) and boys’ ( n = 577) engagement in housework varied by parents’ gender ideology. Findings show that adolescent girls with egalitarian parents do significantly less housework than girls with less egalitarian parents. At first glance, these findings support socialization theory—that what parents think translates into what adolescents do. However, boys do very little housework, regardless of parents’ gender attitudes. These differing findings are consistent with the idea of a stalled gender revolution and illustrate that socialization theory is not gender neutral.

scholarly journals The Influence of Schooling on the Stability and Mutability of Gender Attitudes: Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Girls in Zambia

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. S25-S33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Chae ◽  
Nicole Haberland ◽  
Katharine J. McCarthy ◽  
Ann M. Weber ◽  
Gary L. Darmstadt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Gender Attitudes ◽  
The Stability

scholarly journals Impact of an Empowerment and Employability Program for Adolescent Girls: Evidence From India

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 255-277
Author(s):  
Prerna Kumar ◽  
Amenla Nuken ◽  
Nitin Datta ◽  
Aditi Vyas
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
School To Work ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Gender Attitudes ◽  
Enabling Environment ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Short Run ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Existing research indicates that self-efficacy, aspirations, skills, and an enabling environment are essential for the economic empowerment of adolescent girls. In India, due to deeply rooted patriarchal views and social norms, adolescent girls face a range of social restrictions on their ability to make any decisions about their education or life choices. Plan-It Girls, a multi-level, multi-stakeholder program seeks to build adolescent girls’ agency and promote gender equality to support their aspirations. It equips girls with a gender perspective, life skills, and employability skills to help them transition from school to work through a gender-integrated curriculum while also engaging with significant stakeholders to shift gender norms and create an enabling environment for girls to reach their potential. This evaluation employed a quasi-experimental longitudinal cohort design, with the objective of understanding the program’s impact on the empowerment and employability of adolescent girls. The findings indicate that self-esteem and self-efficacy can be bolstered, and gender attitudes can be shifted in the short run with such a program. Though there were differences by age and program site, overall, the program was found to be effective in equipping girls with employability skills and preparing them for school-to-work transition. The program was impactful in empowering girls during adolescence when they had early exposure to the program. Adolescence is also when gender attitudes are deepening. As such, the program is considering more intentional focus on this age range in future programming efforts.

scholarly journals Measuring gender attitudes using list experiments

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Niaz Asadullah ◽  
Elisabetta De Cao ◽  
Fathema Zhura Khatoon ◽  
Zahra Siddique
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Gender Attitudes ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Rural Bangladesh ◽  
Survey Questions ◽  
True Preferences

Abstract We elicit adolescent girls’ attitudes towards intimate partner violence and child marriage using purposefully collected data from rural Bangladesh. Alongside direct survey questions, we conduct list experiments to elicit true preferences for intimate partner violence and marriage before age 18. Responses to direct survey questions suggest that very few adolescent girls in the study accept the practises of intimate partner violence and child marriage (5% and 2%). However, our list experiments reveal significantly higher support for both intimate partner violence and child marriage (at 30% and 24%). We further investigate how numerous variables relate to preferences for egalitarian gender norms in rural Bangladesh.

Caregiver parenting and gender attitudes: Associations with violence against adolescent girls in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

2017 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 278-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn L. Falb ◽  
Khudejha Asghar ◽  
Betsy Laird ◽  
Sophie Tanner ◽  
Elizabeth Graybill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Gender Attitudes ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
South Kivu ◽  
And Gender

HIV Risk Among Displaced Adolescent Girls in Ethiopia: the Role of Gender Attitudes and Self-Esteem

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Gauer Bermudez ◽  
Gary Yu ◽  
Lily Lu ◽  
Kathryn Falb ◽  
Jennate Eoomkham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Hiv Risk ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Gender Attitudes
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