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  • Title: The relationship between sex roles, fertility, and family size preferences.
    Author: Beckman LJ.
    Journal: Psychol Women Q; 1979; 4(1):43-6. PubMed ID: 12336874.
    Abstract:
    Interview data collected from a sample of 583 currently married women living in Los Angeles county in Calinornia was used to assess the impact of sex role attitudes and behavior on fertility and the impact of fertility on sex role attitudes and behavior. 61% of the respondents were Anglos, 23% were Hispanic, and 9% were black. Correlation analysis was performed separately for each racial grouping and path analysis was applied to the data obtained from Anglo respondents. Correlation analysis revealed that 1) the relationship between sex roles and fertility was not strong; 2) the relationship was strongest among blacks and weakest among Hispanics; 3) sex role attitudes for blacks were more closely related to fertility than sex role behavior within the family; and 4) past and present employment was closely related to fertility for all 3 groups. Path analysis revealed that Anglowomen with more traditional attitudes wanted more children than those with non-traditional attitudes but that women who performed most of the housework in their families desired fewer children than those women who shared housework with their husbands. For Anglo women the number of children they currently had, had a strong influence on the number of children they desired to have. The number of children they had also had an influence on sex role attitudes and behavior.
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