Abstract
This ethnographic research paper addresses gender roles changes in parenting as perceived by a diverse population at a U.S. university. Gender roles in parenting may seem simple at first glance with the traditional stereotype of mothers being the caregivers and the fathers breadwinners. However, this line between the genders and the roles they ought to play in parenting is gradually being blurred as society progresses. For a deeper insight into this movement, in-depth interview was used to understand perceptions of people from different age groups, genders, backgrounds, and nationalities from a U.S. university in a more holistic manner. Data were collected from interviews with 16 participants of American, Italian, Honduran, Croatian, Finnish, Indian, German-Nepali, Bosnian, Danish and Thai nationalities. The findings show that the perceptions of people towards parental gender roles have become more “equal” over the course of time and that there are various causes related to these changes including education, living environment, biological make-up and historical factors.
Highlights
This ethnographic research paper addresses gender roles changes in parenting as perceived by a diverse population at a U.S university
The perceptions of gender roles in parenting The use of inductive content analysis shows that the participants were aware of the “traditional” gender roles in parenting
The mother is often more tender, loving, and is someone that “you went to when you didn’t like the discipline that you were getting from the father”, said the 54 years old American male
Summary
This ethnographic research paper addresses gender roles changes in parenting as perceived by a diverse population at a U.S university. Even though the websites mentioned the significant changes in parenting and how the roles are becoming more equal, they still indicate the necessity of traditional ones for such reasons as each gender are better at certain aspects of parenting. This ethnographic research was used to understand the perceptions of people from different age groups, genders, backgrounds, and nationalities towards parenting roles and examine how the perceptions have been changed. Parental reports and observations revealed that mothers were more involved with the infants and fathers were employed outside the home more hours per week than mothers Both parents rated the mother as a better caretaker of the infant than the father. Egalitarian mothers do not appear to negotiate greater father involvement successfully
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