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The Contributions of Intracohort Change and Population TurnoverThis paper addresses the processes underlying the dramatic shift in beliefs about women's work and family roles in the United States over the past two decades. Following Mason and Lu (1988), we posited this shift to be a function of actual change in individual opinions, as well as changes in population membership that result from births and deaths. Using pooled cross-sections from the General Social Surveys (1977to 1996, we found that although demographic processes and microlevel attitude change are both important in understanding attitude trends, the contribution of cohort succession is substantially greater now than in the period that Mason and Lu examined. Multivariate analyses show that (a) the sex difference in attitudes is greater among recent cohorts, and (b) the strong association between education and attitudes that characterized earlier cohorts is significantly weaker among cohorts born after 1945.The division of labor by sex constitutes a highly visible symbol of gender inequities (Jackman, 1995). The salience of such inequities has increased with the erosion of the male-dominated labor force that characterized the United States

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