Abstract I examine how one central aspect of the family environment—sibling sex composition—affects women’s gender conformity. Using Danish administrative data, causally estimate effect having a second-born brother relative to sister for first-born women. show that women with acquire more traditional roles as measured through their choice occupation and partner. This results in stronger respons...

Based on gender schema theory, social role theory, and social-cognitive theory, this study investigated whether biological sex and gender conformity (femininity and masculinity) predict selective exposure to gender-typed magazines and whether this exposure, in turn, reinforces gender conformity. Participants browsed full issues—three women’s magazines, three associated with male readers, and th...

Failure to express minority views may distort the behavior of company boards, committees, juries, and other decision-making bodies. Devising a new experimental procedure to measure such conformity in a judgment task, we compare the degree of conformity in groups with varying gender composition. Overall, our experiments offer little evidence that gender composition affects expression of minority...