MATERNAL INFLUENCES ON DAUGHTERS GENDER-ROLE ATTITUDES

This study concerns the gender role attitudes of girls. These attitude s included their ideas on motherhood as well as their ideas on female roles in general. We examined whether the relations between mothers' e mployment status and their level of education, and daughters' gender r ole attitudes were mediated by mothers' own gender role attitudes and child-rearing style. In this study, 165 adolescent girls and their mot hers participated. Overall, the data demonstrate the importance of mot hers in the development of daughters' gender role attitudes. A mother' s child-rearing style as well as her own gender role attitudes do infl uence the gender role attitudes a daughter develops. Level of educatio n and mothers' employment have indirect effects.