Parenting Performativities: Gender Ideology, Parenting Practices, and Racialized Gender Differences in Developed Achievement

• In Event: 2169 - School Context

Abstract

As the primary socializing institution, the family has been theorized to be the primary institution for the socialization of gender normativity. While familial socializing processes have been explored extensively in gender and queer theory, few studies have quantitatively examined the influence of parental gender ideologies on the materialized parenting practices and the racialized gender differences in developed achievement. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study employs multilevel growth models of child achievement with multiple group-structural equation modeling to examine the direct and indirect effects of parental gender ideologies on materialized parenting practices and growth in child math and reading achievement. The results of this study offer meaningful evidence of the influence dominant patriarchal ideologies of gender normativity have on the materiality of racialized gender differences in developed achievement.

Authors

• Ezekiel Juma Dixon-Roman, University of Pennsylvania

• Ama Nyame-Mensah, University of Pennsylvania

• Deepa Vasudevan, Harvard University