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Development of Gender Roles

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This chapter examines the social roles of women and men. After an assessment of stable and changing social positions related to gender, the chapter summarizes how sex differences in personal traits, as well as the relationships between social gender and societal positions and rewards, are perpetuated. Gender issues are very relevant to family researchers. For example, until recently, many social scientists assumed that women played marginal roles outside the home. Thus, the family became nearly the only social institution studied with respect to women. Our knowledge of how men’s family roles relate to other aspects of life has only begun to accumulate. There is also reciprocal feedback across familial and non-familial systems. Gender roles within the family influence gender roles outside the family and vice versa.

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Losh-Hesselbart, S. (1987). Development of Gender Roles. In: Sussman, M.B., Steinmetz, S.K. (eds) Handbook of Marriage and the Family. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7151-3_20

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