Asian immigrant mothers and their daughters on women's roles and status at home, society and workplace

Examination of views possessed by 75 Asian immigrant mother-daughter biological dyads on female role orientation revealed a transgenerational paradigm shift from the mothers' traditional Confucian gender specification to the daughters' contemporary American ideals that are less gender specific. Analyses of generation status, ethnic identity, and cultural origin yielded the following results: daughters identified themselves as bicultural or Asian-American more often than their mothers who identified themselves as traditional or exclusively Asian; self-identified biculturalism was greater for American-born daughters than for native-born daughters; daughters of Chinese mothers identified themselves as traditional more often than did Korean daughters; and bicultural daughters were no more progressive in their views about women's issues than their traditional counterpart. Measures designed for this study are further discussed.