{"id":2036,"date":"2016-03-08T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childandfamily.staging.properdesign.rs\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=2036"},"modified":"2025-04-28T16:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:29:01","slug":"swedish-parents-gender-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/swedish-parents-gender-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish parents sustain belief in gender equality when they have children, unlike in other countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015 we reported an Australian study by Dr Janeen Baxter on shifts in gender attitudes among people when they become parents. A more recent study has looked for such changes in Sweden and has found them to be less, very small indeed.<\/p>\n<p>The research, led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidson.edu\/academics\/sociology\/faculty-and-staff\/gayle-kaufman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gayle Kaufman<\/a> at Davidson College in the USA, looked at a sample of 1,800 people and observed how their attitudes towards gender equality changed between 2003 and 2009. They asked about equality in three areas: work, household and use of parenting leave.<\/p>\n<p>They measured changes in the following groups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Those who were single in 2003 and were in a partnership in 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Those who were in a partnership in 2003 but single in 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Those who were in partnerships in both years, but different partnerships.<\/li>\n<li>Those who had experienced multiple transitions in this period.<\/li>\n<li>Those who had become parents between 2003 and 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They found only a few small changes. Becoming a parent was associated with a drop in the average level of support for sharing parental leave equally, though couples who were parents in both 2003 and 2009 also showed a slight drop. And those who had moved from one relationship to another showed a slight increase in their level of support for job equality.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, women\u2019s support for equal division of household labour and equal paid employment increased a bit more than men\u2019s, and those whose parents shared housework more when they were children themselves were more likely to support household equality.<\/p>\n<p>The authors surmise that Swedish society\u2019s great emphasis on equality, particularly through the transition to parenthood, could explain why attitudes changed so little there compared to other countries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"retrofit-references\">\n<h4>References<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 1.8em;\"><em> Kaufman G, Bernhardt E &amp; Goldscheider F (2016), <a href=\"http:\/\/jfi.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2016\/02\/17\/0192513X16632266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enduring egalitarianism? Family transitions and attitudes toward gender equality in Sweden<\/a>, Journal of Family Issues<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research on attitudes among Swedish parents found only small changes in beliefs about gender equality after having children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5794],"tags":[1283,329,41],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20624,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/20624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childandfamilyblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}