Life in the Balance: Are Women's Possible Selves Constrained by Men's Domestic Involvement?
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SAGE PUBLICATIONS INCCitation
Croft, A., Schmader, T., & Block, K. (2019). Life in the Balance: Are Women’s Possible Selves Constrained by Men’s Domestic Involvement? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45(5), 808–823. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167218797294Rights
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Do young women's expectations about potential romantic partners' likelihood of adopting caregiving roles in the future contribute to whether they imagine themselves in nontraditional future roles? Meta-analyzed effect sizes of five experiments (total N = 645) supported this complementarity hypothesis. Women who were primed with family-focused (vs. career-focused) male exemplars (Preliminary Study) or information that men are rapidly (vs. slowly) assuming greater caregiving responsibilities (Studies 1-4) were more likely to envision becoming the primary economic provider and less likely to envision becoming the primary caregiver of their future families. A meta-analysis across studies revealed that gender role complementarity has a small-to-medium effect on both women's abstract expectations of becoming the primary economic provider (d = .27) and the primary caregiver (d = -.26). These patterns suggest that women's stereotypes about men's stagnant or changing gender roles might subtly constrain women's own expected work and family roles.ISSN
1552-7433PubMed ID
30284500Version
Final accepted manuscriptSponsors
Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology; Society for the Psychology of Women (APA Division 35); SSHRC Insight Grantae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1177/0146167218797294
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