摘要：The present study was undertaken to find gender bias in parenting patterns used by urban Punjabi parents on
their children. A sample of 300 families (300 fathers and 300 mothers) were randomly selected from Amritsar, Hoshiarpur,
Ludhiana and Patiala cities of Punjab ¡®Socio-Economic Status Scale¡¯ and ¡®Multi-Dimensional Parenting Scale¡¯ were used as
quantitative measures. Significant gender differences were found in parenting patterns of urban Punjabi parents. Mothers
were found to be more loving, encouraging, accepting, and progressing towards sons as compared to daughters. They were
using all the negative dimensions of parenting with more intensity on daughters as compared to sons. They were more
hating, rejecting, authoritarian, discouraging, and conservative towards their daughters. They also encouraged submissiveness
and dependency in daughters as compared to sons. Whereas, fathers were using the similar positive dimensions on both sons
and daughters. They were also using similar negative dimensions except conservatism, as they were found to be more
conservative towards their daughters as compared to sons.
