Parents' differential socialization of boys and girls: A meta-analysis.
Psychological BulletinPublished 1 March 1991
Hugh Lytton, David M. Romney
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A meta-analysis of 172 studies attempted to resolve the conflict between previous narrative reviews on whether parents make systematic differences in their rearing of boys and girls. Most effect sizes were found to be nonsignificant and small. In North American studies, the only socialization area o
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