| Type of Document |
Dissertation |
| Author |
Guerra, Susana
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| Author's Email Address |
sguerra@lsu.edu |
| URN |
etd-07072004-105247 |
| Title |
The Influence of Ethnic Embeddedness on the Gender Role Attitudes and Division of Household Labor of Married Hispanic Women |
| Degree |
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) |
| Department |
Sociology |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Jill Suitor |
Committee Chair |
| Michael Grimes |
Committee Member |
| Pamela Monroe |
Committee Member |
| Yoshinori Kamo |
Committee Member |
| Katie Cherry |
Dean's Representative |
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| Keywords |
- ethnic embeddedness
- ethnicity
- traditionalism
- division of household labor
- hispanics
- gender role attitudes
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| Date of Defense |
2004-06-11 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
In this study I examine the effects of both network structure and network function on the gender role attitudes and division of household labor among Hispanic women. Using a representative sub-sample drawn from the first wave of the National Study of Families and Households, I determine to what extent network processes help explain the gender role attitudes and behaviors of Hispanic women. Specifically, I focus on how embeddedness within a Hispanic community, as well as a woman’s level of social support exchange with kin and non-kin help explain her current gender role attitudes and household labor allocation. I found that ethnic embeddedness during adolescence best explained gender role attitudes while current ethnic embeddedness was a more substantive determinant of household labor allocation. I conclude that factors regarding a woman’s level of assimilation, as well as more precise measures of ethnic embeddedness may help better explain the relationship between ethnic embeddedness and gendered attitudes and behaviors.
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