This presentation will discuss contemporary perspectives on gender highlight the multilevel processes that maintain the gender system. This study investigates immigration as a source of diversity and adaptation in the gender system. Using data on immigrant and native adolescents in the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU), we examine the intergenerational transmission of attitudes about the domestic division of labor.  We find no significant difference between immigrant and native families in the association between mother’s gender attitudes and child’s gender attitudes. However, the persistence of beliefs grounded in family cultural origins results in significantly higher levels of gender traditionalism among adolescent children of immigrants as compared to their native peers. Our study underscores the centrality of families as the relational context that best accounts for both the reproduction of cultural beliefs about gender and the slow pace of shifts in hegemonic gender beliefs in response to social change.

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