Doing Family through Gender, Doing Gender through Family. Exploring Social Inequalities and Cultural Changes in Everyday Parenting. An Introduction

The contribution is the introduction of a Symposium entitled "Doing gender through family and doing family through gender". In considering the complex processes of mutual exchange between families and society, as well as the eternal motion of changes and continuities, the Symposium focuses on how family relationships contribute to doing (or undoing) gender and how gender is produced and reproduced through everyday family life. More specifically, it focuses on how parenting practices and socio-economic conditions interact with children’s socialization to gender roles, thus contributing to transmitting not only gender but also social inequalities to new generations.