Page No.313-321
Neha Tiwari and Rehana Ghadially
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
The study analyses the gender and generational differences in gender identity
amongst emerging adults in contemporary India. The sample consisted of 160
emerging adults and 80 parents living in a semi-metro city. The results revealed
that gender identity of girls is changing much more than boys as more girls than
boys have moved away from traditional personality traits to non-traditional
personality traits. This is attributed to more options available to young women today
to develop gender identity of their choice whereas young men also seem to have
these options, but pretty much limited in scope as more women have become
active in the public domain so the change is more noticeable in them. Generation
comparison revealed that younger generation females are more sex-atyped
whereas younger generation males do not indicate gender identity change. The
results are interpreted in light of socio-historical, political and economic changes
occurring in Indian society.
of correlational analysis