Downplaying Themselves, Upholding Men’s Status: Women’s Deference to Men in Wealthy Families

Annette Lareau

doi:10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.06

Article Information

vol. 8 no. 7 112-131

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.06

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online November 29, 2022.

© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Lareau, Annette. 2022. “Downplaying Themselves, Upholding Men’s Status: Women’s Deference to Men in Wealthy Families.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(7): 112–31. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.06. I am grateful to the Russell Sage Foundation and to the National Science Foundation for generous financial support of this research. In addition, the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation and the School of Arts and Sciences contributed important resources. The project benefited from the helpful feedback of Hazel Markus and Cecilia Ridgeway as well as the comments of the anonymous reviewers and other authors of articles in this volume. I deeply appreciate comments from Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Aliya Rao, Maia Cucchiara, Judith Levine, Peter Harvey, Katharina Hecht, and Doron Shiffer-Sebba on an earlier version of this article. In addition, Ashleigh Cartwright provided invaluable assistance as did the following research assistants: Lin Ang, Chelsea Gardner, Shawn Kim, Marion Standefer, Edward Stevens IV, Hector Torres, and, especially, Andy Jimenez. All errors, of course, are the author’s responsibility. Direct correspondence to: Annette Lareau, at alareau@sas.upenn.edu, 3718 Locust Walk, McNeil Bldg., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6099, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.