scholarly journals YOUTH ATTITUDES TOWARDS GENDER ROLES WITHIN FAMILY

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
GAGAUZ Olga ◽  
CHIVACIUC Anna
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Multiple Equilibrium ◽  
Balance Model ◽  
Family Roles ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Family

Young people are leaders of change in any society; therefore, studying their attitude towards gender roles in the family is of particular interest in predicting changes in their behaviour and identifying the policy measures needed to achieve sustainable progress in gender equality. The study aimed to research the attitude of youth towards gender roles in the family to determine the influence of the levels of education, gender and other characteristics on gender preferences in relations – traditional or egalitarian. It is based on data from a sociological survey of youth in Chisinau, conducted in 2019 on a representative sample (N = 506). The theoretical basis of the study was the multiple equilibrium theory (Esping-Andersen et al., 2013). The study results showed that the perception of young people regarding the essential qualities of men and women is still under the pressure of stereotypes and corresponds to the intermediate balance model characteristic of the transition from traditional roles based on the division of labour to modern egalitarian ones. This circumstance implies an equal division of responsibilities and family roles between women and men. On the one hand, youth tend to an egalitarian type of marriage and family relationships, and on the other, they adhere to traditional views of family roles. Although there are some differences in attitudes towards gender roles within the family between natives of Chisinau and young people from other localities, they are still not so pronounced. Youth with higher education are more likely to prefer an egalitarian distribution of gender roles than youth with a lower level of education. Girls more often than boys strive for gender equality in the family. However, in some aspects, such as the responsibility of men for the family’s financial support, the importance of the material situation of a partner, they more often express traditional views.

scholarly journals Discriminant Profile of Young Internet Dependents: The Role of Family Relationships

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (62) ◽  
pp. 353-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Terres-Trindade ◽  
Clarisse Pereira Mosmann
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Interparental Conflict ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Paternal Behavior ◽  
The Family ◽  
Parent Child

AbstractInternational studies have shown effects of family relations on Internet addiction in young people. This research aimed to outline a discriminant profile of young people classified as dependent and not dependent on the Internet regarding to socio-biodemographic variables to parenting practices, parent-child conflict and interparental conflict. The sample consisted of 200 students (152 girls and 48 boys), between 15 and 24 years of age, 85.5% reside in Rio Grande do Sul and 14.5% in other Brazilian states. Participants responded individually to the protocol available online. The results showed that interparental conflict, parent-child conflict and the educational practice of supervision of paternal behavior discriminate dependents on Internet. The educational practice of maternal emotional support was the only discriminating variable for non-dependents. These national findings corroborate the international context studies and reinforce the importance of including the family in promotion and prevention of mental health of young people.

Protective Factors in Family Relationships

2014 ◽  
pp. 76-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Young People ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One ◽  
Partnership Approach

This chapter analyzes the importance of protective factors in family relationships. In Confucian societies, where services for older people may be limited, intergenerational family relationships are crucial in providing care for the elderly. Confucian societies are better at recognizing the protective influence of the family, but scholars from these areas suggest that the culture may be changing. As the “One child” norm extends (not only in China) across many Asian societies, the challenges for young people in supporting their parents and grandparents may become overwhelming. This chapter suggests that at every stage of the life cycle, some families will need state support in order to carry out their protective role in mitigating the risks experienced by both the young and the old. A state/family partnership approach is likely to be more acceptable, more effective, and more economic than state care alone.

Gender Roles in Marriage and the Family

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEAN ATKINSON
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Division Of Household Labor ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual

Gender role issues permeate nearly all aspects of marital and family life, and understanding the ways that women and men and girls and boys are different and similar will heighten our understanding of marriage and family relationships in general. Although theory and experience seem to insist that gender differences clearly exist, empirical evidence about similarities or differences—with few exceptions—is not so clear. In this article, I argue that these ambiguities can be traced in large part to conceptual and methodological issues, such as construct definitions, measurement techniques, and sampling, as well as inattention to the historical context. Throughout the article, I focus particularly on division of household labor to illustrate how attending more carefully to method, theory, and history can enlarge our understanding of how gender roles are played out in the family. In the last section of the article, I discuss ways in which gender role issues might be thought about and studied beyond the individual and the dyad to the family as a whole.

scholarly journals “If I Shut My Eyes, I Cannot Hear You”: The Regulation of Parent and Adolescent Communication about Sexual Practices and Identities in the Family Context

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Elley
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Context ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Control Situations ◽  
And Control

This paper examines parent-adolescent communication about sexuality in the family context. Of central concern is how parents and their adolescent children interact and communicate about sexual identities and practices. The paper focuses on kinship and familial relations between parents and adolescents, family dynamics and the processes impacting on young people's emergent sexual development and informal sex education in the home. The data is drawn from interviews with 38 young people aged 15-21 years with another 31 participating in focus-groups. The paper argues that mutual and open dialogue about sexuality between parents and adolescents remains highly circumscribed due to how sexuality is relational and regulated in the family context. The data reveals that despite strong family relationships, complex patterns of surveillance and negotiation mean that parents and children monitor and control situations related to expressing sexuality. Instead of ‘passive’ processes operating to manage sexual identities, this paper finds that parents and young people necessarily draw on more sophisticated practices of what can be conceptually termed as the ‘active acknowledgement’ and ‘active avoidance’ of sexuality as a means to manage sexual identities across different family contexts.

Young People and the Division of Labour in Farming Families

1994 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Wallace ◽  
David Dunkerley ◽  
Brian Cheal ◽  
Martyn Warren
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Family Farm ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Patriarchal Ideology ◽  
The Family ◽  
Farming Families

The family farm has been identified as the main unit of agricultural production in Britain and it has been widely studied as an economic unit in agricultural research. However, it is also a social unit: one with a division of labour based upon gender and generation. Here we will consider a relatively unexplored area of agricultural production: the contribution of children to the family farm, based upon a quantitative survey of young people in a rural area and detailed qualitative interviews. The approach is to look at the farm family in terms of a ‘household work strategy’ although in the paper we argue that this should take into account the importance of moral obligation and patriarchal ideology. The importance of gender and generation are explored as intersecting factors in the division of labour.

scholarly journals ‘My own blood’: family relationships of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in the UK

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-199
Author(s):  
Kelly Devenney
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Young People ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Significant Attention

This article explores the family social networks of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in the UK. While significant attention has been paid to their experiences, few studies have considered family relationships. The findings in this article, based on empirical research with unaccompanied young people, suggests that they are engaged in complex and fluid family relationships both within the UK and transnationally. The young people in this study felt significant obligations towards family members and sought to provide care and support to those in the UK and abroad. However, they faced significant barriers to achieving these aims.

scholarly journals Women's Stereotypes in the Implementation of Reproductive and Productive Roles in Women Farmers' Households

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Wiji Tuhu Utami ◽  
Retno Setyowati ◽  
Sugihardjo Sugihardjo
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Women Farmers ◽  
Processed Food ◽  
Family Head ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Family ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Essential Contribution

<p><em><span lang="EN-ID">The role of the wife has an essential contribution in the household as the smallest unit in household life. Stereotypes are specific labels attached to women in their roles as wives, mothers, and in society. The research aims to analyze stereotypes among women who work as processed food producers to implement household gender roles. The method in this research uses descriptive qualitative. The study results show that the pattern of household gender relations for Ngudi Rejeki Women Farmer Group members is equal. Household problems may resolve on their own or require discussion. Ngudi Rejeki Women Farmer Group members work as a processed food producer with a processed product entity made from Moringa leaves. The stereotype of responsibility is held husband as the family head and the housewife as the wife's prominent role, in the household function the husband as the primary breadwinner and the wife as the additional breadwinner. In implementing the reproductive role, the wife has a more prominent role and the husband only a helping hand.</span></em></p><p class="abstrak"> </p><p class="abstrak">Peranan istri memiliki berkontribusi penting dalam rumah tangga sebagai unit terkecil dalam kehidupan rumah tangga. Stereotip merupakan pelabelan tertentu yang melekat pada perempuan dalam perannya sebagai istri, ibu, dan pada masyarakat. Penelitian bertujuan untuk menganalisis stereotip pada perempuan produsen makanan olahan dalam pelaksanaan peran gender rumah tangga. Metode dalam penelitian ini menggunakan deskriptif kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pola relasi gender rumah tangga anggota KWT Ngudi Rejeki ke arah setara. Permasalahan rumah tangga dapat selesai dengan sendirinya atau memerlukan pembahasan. Anggota KWT Ngudi Rejeki bekerja sebagai produsen makanan olahan dengan entitas produk olahan berbahan dasar daun kelor. Stereotip dalam hal tanggung jawab yaitu kepala keluarga dikonstruksikan sebagai tanggung jawab suami dan ibu rumah tangga menjadi tanggung jawab istri, pada fungsi rumah tangga dikonstruksikan suami sebagai pencari nafkah utama dan istri sebagai pencari nafkah tambahan, dan pada pelaksanaan peran reproduktif mengonstruksikan istri memiliki peran yang lebih utama dan suami sekedar membantu.</p>

Las dinámicas familiares en torno al videojuego social Fortnite

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-198
Author(s):  
Francisco Albarello ◽  
Adriana Velasco ◽  
Mariángeles Castro Sánchez ◽  
Ángela Novoa Echaurren ◽  
Victoria Novaro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
American University ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
The Media

In 2017 the company Epic Games created the videogame Fortnite. This game has become the cross-platform survival and open experience with the greatest penetration worldwide. The rapid increase of use has spread alarm voices among parents and the media have echoed these concerns criticizing the game for being responsible for most afflictions suffered by children and adolescents. 178 The study is based on an understanding of the game as a key element in personal and social development. Therefore, this project aims to explore and describe the specific interactions emerging as a result of the penetration of Fortnite into family life, seeking to extend our understanding of the phenomenon and the potential effects that it may produce in the family dynamics. The research also seeks to categorize the dynamics generated, emphasizing more specifically on implications for parents in terms of educative mediation. Concerning the methodology, this is a qualitative exploratory case study, in which observations and in-depth interviews are the main sources of data collection. According to the analysis of the first interviews and observations, it is possible to provisionally hypothesize that, unlike simplistic views spread through mass media of Fortnite as a new dangerous addictive platform for young people, the diverse contexts and realities that configure each family make this type of linear interpretations highly problematic. Most technological devices affect the interaction and relational dynamics already installed in families. Throughout the last forty years, television and offline video games have been playing a significant role in shaping the family relationships. Online environments today increase such influence. The complex interrelations generated in blended social ecosystems, such as 'what is' or 'what is not' permitted, the mechanism of videogame banning or use as a form of punishment or reward, the myths, and ignorance on the part of adults concerning the ‘virtual’ socialization of youth and the relevance of this practice among young people, are some of the contributions that can be drawn from this investigation. This presentation exposes the collaborative work conducted by researchers of Universidad Austral (Argentina) and Universidad de los Andes (Chile), which has gained the first place in the award provided by the Network of Latin American University Institutes of Family (REDIFAM).

scholarly journals Roles de género en personas mayores en el ámbito familiar

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
María Victoria Pérez de Guzmán Puya ◽  
Jose Luis Rodríguez Díez
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
General Analysis ◽  
The Family ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
The University

Hemos realizado un estudio longitudinal, con alumnado mayor de 65 años, que participa en el Programa universitario Aula Abierta de Mayores, de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla (España) de diferentes localidades. En este artículo se presentan los resultados referidos a los roles de género. Si bien el análisis de los resultados, de manera general, no muestran diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre los estudios del 2013 y el del 2018 en la frecuencia de realización de las tareas: pequeñas reparaciones domésticas y gestiones (bancos, médicos etc.). Sin embargo, en la tarea de cuidado de menores y/o mayores dependientes, en los hombres, en el estudio actual, se ha producido un descenso en la frecuencia, mientras que en las mujeres se observa un aumento en la periodicidad de realización de esta tarea. Tras cinco años, algunos roles de género siguen marcados en el ámbito familiar. Nuestros datos ponen de relieve, una vez más, la importancia de incidir en temas relacionados con la igualdad entre hombres y mujeres, comenzando por el ámbito más próximo a cada persona. Desde los programas universitarios para mayores se hace necesario seguir incidiendo en conocimientos teórico-prácticos que lleven a entender el significado y la aplicación de cuestiones relacionadas con el género. We have carried out a longitudinal study of the student older than 65 years old in the “Open Classroom” university senior program from the Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain), from different locations. In this article, we present the results of finding out the gender roles in the family. Although the general analysis of the results don´t show statistically significant differences between the 2013 and 2018 studies in the frequency of accomplishment of the tasks: small domestic repairs and management (banks, doctors, etc.); However, in the care of minors and / or elderly dependents in men, in the current study, there has been a decrease in frequency while in women there has been an increase in the frequency of this task. Some gender roles are maintained in the family after five years. Our results highlight the importance of focusing in the issues related with the gender equality, starting with the field more familiar with each person. From the university senior’s programs, it is necessary continue stressing the theoretical and practical knowledge that allows the understanding of issues related with the gender.

scholarly journals Confucianism Perspective on the Position of Women in Society and the Impact of that Perspective on Gender Equality in Vietnam Today

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Nguyen Xuan Phong ◽  
Vu Hong Van ◽  
Pham Duy Hoang
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male Domination ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Family Norms

In the 21st century, we try to understand how the roles of men and women have been changed in Vietnam that has firm beliefs of Confucianism in the society. Confucianism in Vietnam instills the concept of male superiority over women. Although the laws in the country establish women’s rights, the norms and practices of society still engender male domination. Vietnam family norms promote the unity of the family while placing women in a subservient position, the traditional culture requires obedience to a father and then to a husband and sons. As per family norms, the power of family decisions also remains with husbands. Men keep contact politically and socially at village meetings and exchange the use of resources and production. With the increase of women taking greater productive roles and earn income, their involvement in decision-making also increases. Due to increased women’s education, female power within the family has also increased. Over that last three decades (Starting in 1986, Vietnam carried out the renovation of the country), these traditional views on gender roles influenced by Confucianism have changed drastically, although it is still looked down upon for women to work outside the house, it is slowly being accepted and almost 71.1% of the female population in Vietnam is actively participating the workforce (General Statistics Office of Vietnam, 2019). On the other hand, the male domination over the woman on the family has eased out, and many men do help out with household chores and looking after children while the woman works. Although this population is much lesser than the expectations, it is still a change from the Confucianism principles where the male remains dominant and authoritative. Although there are instances to prove that Vietnam is coming out of its traditional views on gender roles, it is still far behind concerning gender equality compared to globally desirable standards. It is expected that modernization will bring about the empowerment of women and a balance between men and women in both family and society.

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