Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Livvy Mitchell
Author-X-Name-First: Livvy	
Author-X-Name-Last: Mitchell
Author-Email: livvy.mitchell@motu.org.nz
Author-Workplace-Name: AUT
Author-Name: Isabelle Sin
Author-X-Name-First: Isabelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Sin
Author-Email: isabelle.sin@motu.org.nz 
Author-Workplace-Name: Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
Author-Name: Maanaima Soa-Lafoai
Author-X-Name-First: Maanaima
Author-X-Name-Last: Soa-Lafoai
Author-Email: maanaima.soa-lafoai@kaingaora.govt.nz
Author-Workplace-Name: K?inga Ora - Homes and Communities
Author-Name: Colleen Ward
Author-X-Name-First: Colleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Ward
Author-Email: colleen.ward@vuw.ac.nz 
Author-Workplace-Name: Victoria University of Wellington
Title: Gendered parenting and the intergenerational transmission of gendered stereotypes: Evidence from the Growing Up in New Zealand survey
Abstract: This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and inequality in Aotearoa New Zealand from parents to their young children. We explore whether the parenting of boy and girl children differs in such a way that perpetuates traditional Western gender stereotypes and gendered expectations, and for which groups gendered parenting is most prevalent. We use the Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) study, a longitudinal survey of around 7,000 children born in 2009/10 in Auckland, Waikato, and Counties-Manukau. Overall, the differences in parenting by the child’s sex are not large enough to explain the gender inequality between adults in Aotearoa New Zealand. We infer that external structural factors outside parents’ control likely play a primary role in perpetuating potentially harmful gender inequality. Parents alone cannot end the cycle of harmful gender inequalities, particularly since they are often pressured to parent within society’s gendered structural constrains.
Length: 129 pages
Creation-Date: 2022-09
File-URL: https://motu-www.motu.org.nz/wpapers/22_10.pdf
Number: 22_10
Classification-JEL: 
Keywords: Gender inequality, economic outcomes
Handle: RePEc:mtu:wpaper:22_10