Family Influences on Boys’ and Girls’ Gender Ideology and Underachievement

• In Event: Roundtable Session 7
  In Roundtable Session: International and Comparative Perspectives on Educational Achievement

Abstract

The purpose of the study at hand is to investigate the family background and its influences on the differential achievement of boys and girls. Parents’ gender ideology, SES, parental expectations, parental involvement and family structure and students’ views on masculinity and femininity and their academic achievement are measured. 3500 students and their parents participated. The relationship between children’s gender ideology and achievement is confirmed. SES has a directly and significantly related to children’s gender ideology. Other variables have an indirect influence through SES.

Authors

• Nadine S.L. Engels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

• Els Fabiola Consuegra, Vrije Universiteit Brussel