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@article{184211,
        author = {Syeda Samreen Ruhi and Dr. Khan Zeenat Muzaffar},
        title = {A Comparative study of Parenting Style of Professional and Non – Professional Women},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {4},
        pages = {610-612},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=184211},
        abstract = {Parenting Style differs from family to family, from society to society, from culture to culture, from religion to religion and from one geographical region to another geographical region. Within-culture differences in parenting are often larger than between-culture differences (Deater -Deckard et al., 2018). Within-culture differences can be a function of socioeconomic status (SES), parent or child gender, parent or child age, urban/rural residence, and other factors. To illustrate, social safety nets may make SES differences in parenting less pronounced in some countries than others by reducing the stress parents experience, and harsh parenting that can stem from stress, in the face of food or housing insecurity in the absence of social safety nets (Kotchick et al., 2021). Sociocultural factors are the larger scale forces within cultures and societies that affect the thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Such factors include: Attitudes, Child rearing practices and Cross-cultural differences. Parenting styles are affected by a group of factors that could be referred to as socio-cultural factors –values, norms and attitudes. Its describing people’s behavior and mental processes as shaped in part by their social and cultural contact, including race, gender and nationality (Sanderson, 2010)},
        keywords = {Parenting style, professional women, non - professional women},
        month = {September},
        }