Nechaeva N.A. Transformation of young people's ideas about the roles of a wife and a husband in the structure of gender pictures of the world (1996–2014). In: Russian family and children's welfare: [monograph] ...

Abstract

The general goal of the research was to study the transformation of gender pictures of the world over the past decades (1996 -2014). Based on the generalization of the results of the research, a number of empirically confirmed characteristics of gender pictures of the world have been identified and described, which are a model of the attitude of their carriers to the position of men and women in family and society; have integrity; the structure of their levels is hierarchical; properties are ordered and form a unity; the relationships within the model are stable; the system-forming characteristic is the gender dominant of consciousness. On the basis of empirical data, it is shown that the dynamics of the general gender and family dispositions of student youth in each of the analyzed time periods is characterized by heterochronism of changes. In 1996, most young people supported the husband's dominance in the family; views on the role of the wife were highly polarized. The period from 1996 to 2007 can be characterized as a time of growth of egalitarianism, primarily in relation to the position of women in the family and society; at the same time, views on the traditional roles of the husband remained unchanged. From 2007 to 2014, the vector of transformations in a wide range of ideas about family roles changed its direction towards an increase in the number of supporters of traditional views (primarily in relation to the roles of the wife and mother). In order to identify the mechanisms of transformation of both gender, family, and general cultural ideas in general, the importance of the fact that, firstly, 7-10 years was enough for significant shifts in the consciousness of young people, both in the direction of preference for the egalitarianism of family roles and their tradition, was demonstrated.  Secondly, when analyzing a longer (18-year) time period, if there was no intermediate fixation point (measurement in 2007), these changes would be hidden. This could give rise to the illusion of erroneous stability of young people's ideas about family roles, which in fact during this time managed twice to change the vector of their transformations.

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