Mothers’ WFC and Fathers’ Gender Role Ideology Shape Offspring’s Job Satisfaction Across 19 Years

Taking a COR and signaling perspective, this study examines how fathers’ expectations that mothers will stay at home (fathers’ good-stay-at-home- mother ideology; the ideology about ‘being a good stay-at-home mother’) intensify the negative influence of resource loss from mothers’ work interference with family (WIF), signal to their offspring that the workplace is a distressful and hopeless place, and, in turn, ultimately decrease the global job satisfaction of their offspring. Multiwave data from 366 mother–father–offspring triad data drawn from the Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey conducted in Australia over a 19-year period support our full model.