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Gender Roles: An Examination of the Hopes and Expectations of the Next Generation of Managers in Canada and China

Gender Roles: An Examination of the Hopes and Expectations of the Next Generation of Managers in... Through a survey of 214 Canadian and 160 Chinese business students, we investigated students’ hopes and expectations regarding their future spouses’ employment and family roles relative to their own. The results of this exploratory study show that a large proportion of the students from both countries hope for equality between spouses, especially in the distribution of domestic tasks. However, significant discrepancies exist between their ideal hopes and their expectations of what will actually happen in reality. Many men and women of both countries expect that the wives will do more of the domestic work and have less prestigious jobs and lower earnings than their husbands. The between-sex and cross-national differences in gender role hopes and expectations were also explored. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Sex Roles Springer Journals

Gender Roles: An Examination of the Hopes and Expectations of the Next Generation of Managers in Canada and China

Sex Roles , Volume 52 (8) – Jan 1, 2005

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 by Springer Science + Business Media, Inc.
Subject
Psychology; Gender Studies; Sociology, general; Medicine/Public Health, general
ISSN
0360-0025
eISSN
1573-2762
DOI
10.1007/s11199-005-3719-5
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Abstract

Through a survey of 214 Canadian and 160 Chinese business students, we investigated students’ hopes and expectations regarding their future spouses’ employment and family roles relative to their own. The results of this exploratory study show that a large proportion of the students from both countries hope for equality between spouses, especially in the distribution of domestic tasks. However, significant discrepancies exist between their ideal hopes and their expectations of what will actually happen in reality. Many men and women of both countries expect that the wives will do more of the domestic work and have less prestigious jobs and lower earnings than their husbands. The between-sex and cross-national differences in gender role hopes and expectations were also explored.

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Sex RolesSpringer Journals

Published: Jan 1, 2005

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