Theories of Family Labor as Applied to Gender Differences in Caregiving for Elderly Parents

Finley, Nancy J.

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“…In Taiwan and Japan, sons rather than daughters remain under obligation to parents in terms of repayment, working in family-owned businesses or supporting their parents in old age. In the United States, however, there is either no guarantee of reciprocity by sons or daughters; it is daughters, not sons, who are more likely to provide social support to aging parents (Brody 1981;Kagan 1984;Finley 1989). Because there is no future personal gain in favoring males, parents may be indiscriminate in gender and resource allocation.…”

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Sponsoring the Next Generation: Parental Willingness to Pay for Higher Education

Steelman¹,

Powell²

1991

American Journal of Sociology

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Sponsoring the Next Generation: Parental Willingness to Pay for Higher Education

Steelman¹,

Powell²

1991

American Journal of Sociology

166

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“…The most common explanation for the greater involvement of women in care work is the socialization theory (Coltrane, 1988;Finley, 1989) or the internalization of personality differences that men and women form during primary socialization Lawrence, Goodnow, Woods, & Karantzas, 2002). Women are socialized not only to take more care responsibilities but also to expect less involvement from male family members in care work (Montgomery & Datwyler, 1990).…”

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The Pivotal Role of Women in Informal Care

Bracke¹,

Christiaens²,

Wauterickx³

2008

Journal of Family Issues

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Supporting and caring for each other are crucial parts of the social tissue that binds people together. In these networks, men and women hold different positions: Women more often care more for others, listen more to the problems of others, and, as kin keepers, hold families together. Is this true for all life stages? And are social conditions, among other things bound to the organization of work and family, an essential explanation of these differences? Data from the sixth wave (1997) of the Panel Study of Belgian Households allow us to answer these questions. The results show that women are the glue holding social relations together. They play a central role as friends, daughters, sisters, mothers, and grandmothers throughout all stages of the life course. Similar life commitments do not reduce these gender differences but instead emphasize them even further.

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“…Consequently, women may be more motivated to engage in demonstration effect activities. Empirical evidence that in the US daughters look after aging parents more intensively than sons is consistent with this reasoning (Finley, 1989;Lee et al, 1993;Ettner, 1996;Hiedemann and Stern, 1999;Stark, 1999;Engers and Stern, 2002;Cox and Stark, 2005). For example, using data from the 1987 National Survey of Families and Households, Ettner (1996, p. 201) finds that "… caregiving [for parents] appears to have a larger impact on female work hours than on male work hours."…”

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Gender Differentiation in Intergenerational Care-Giving and Migration Choices

Stark

Cukrowska‐Torzewska

2018

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. We are indebted to three reviewers for thoughtful advice, and to Alfonso Sousa-Poza for guidance and encouragement. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractWe weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason underlying this hypothesis is that women on average live longer than men, they tend to marry men who are older than they are and, thus, they are more likely than men to spend their last years without a spouse. Because it is more effective and less costly to care for parents if they

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Theories of Family Labor as Applied to Gender Differences in Caregiving for Elderly Parents

Cited by 140 publications

References 19 publications

Sponsoring the Next Generation: Parental Willingness to Pay for Higher Education

Sponsoring the Next Generation: Parental Willingness to Pay for Higher Education

The Pivotal Role of Women in Informal Care

Gender Differentiation in Intergenerational Care-Giving and Migration Choices

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