TY  - JOUR
A1  - Frodermann, Corinna
A1  - Hipp, Lena
A1  - Bünning, Mareike
T1  - Money matters!
BT  - evidence from a survey experiment on attitudes toward maternal employment across contexts in Germany
JF  - Gender & society
N2  - This paper examines the context dependency of attitudes toward maternal employment. We test three sets of factors that may affect these attitudes—economic benefits, normative obligations, and child-related consequences—by analyzing data from a unique survey experimental design implemented in a large-scale household panel survey in Germany (17,388 observations from 3,494 respondents). Our results show that the economic benefits associated with maternal employment are the most important predictor of attitudes supporting maternal employment. Moreover, we find that attitudes toward maternal employment vary by individual, household, and contextual characteristics (in particular, childcare quality). We interpret this variation as an indication that negative attitudes toward maternal employment do not necessarily reflect gender essentialism; rather, gender role attitudes are contingent upon the frames individuals have in mind.
KW  - maternal employment
KW  - factorial survey design
KW  - gender role attitudes
KW  - survey experiments
KW  - work and family
KW  - gender norms
Y1  - 2024
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241252601
SN  - 0891-2432
SN  - 1552-3977
VL  - 38
IS  - 3
SP  - 436
EP  - 465
PB  - Sage
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  -