Exhortations of Women’s Resilience but Keeping Women in the Home: Socialization Messages Among Diverse Families

Ethnically-diverse emerging adults (N=347, M_age=19.32 years) completed a retrospective survey describing family socialization messages about women. Inductive thematic analysis revealed that many messages (especially from mothers to daughters) were counter-stereotypical, emphasizing women’s resilience, strength, and competence. Further, the specific content of family messages about women predicted emerging adults’ ambivalent sexism.