Gender Role Attitudes: A Literature Review of Youth Development, Family Dynamics, and Economic Empowerment
Overview
This literature review examines gender role attitudes and their impact on individuals, particularly youth, within family and economic contexts. The paper synthesizes research from the 1970s to 2019 to demonstrate how gender roles affect family dynamics, self-esteem, work-family balance, and economic empowerment across different populations including students, displaced refugees, and individuals with disabilities.
What this literature review covers
- Introduction and historical context of gender role discussion starting in the 1970s-1980s
- Gender role impacts on family structure, relocation effects, and economic participation
- Youth attitudes toward gender roles and their influence on self-esteem and decision-making
- References from multiple international sources examining gender role attitudes in various populations
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Gender Role Attitudes
Walter (2018) notes that the discussion on gender roles gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s with keen interests in roles played by males as breadwinners. Surveys were conducted to find out the efficiency of men as breadwinners in a family setting. In yet another research by Vidal & Lersch (2019), the findings were that relocation of couples from their residential places brought gender inequalities in families because of one of the parties losing their job or not having work. Adachi (2018) notes that many males in Japan prefer to continue with work even after getting a child as compared to females who prefer resigning, which may lead to unstable families. For families to have a good understanding amongst them, women need to take part in economic issues that reduce the burden on another (Bakioglu, 2019). In society, every person like a male has the roles that they are supposed to play to ensure harmony due to their position, as highlighted by Halimi et al. (2016).
Youths are considered as an age group that can revolutionalize the thinking when it comes to attitudes towards gender roles, and they should be nurtured correctly for an effective society (El Kharouf & Daoud, 2019). Youths should be exposed to academicians who are aware of social gender roles to be impacted positively, as Dasli & Tugut (n.d) points out. In a high school set up, it was found that gender-role attitudes affected students' self-esteem significantly (Isiktekin et al., 2016).