Authoritarianism, Occupational Sex-Typing, and Attitudes toward Work

Abstract

This study explored the relationships between authoritarianism, work motivation, and occupational sex-role typing. There was a direct positive relationship between high F scores, extrinsic work motivation, and rigid occupational sex-role typing and between low F scores, intrinsic work motivation and flexible occupational sex-role typing. The way in which this directly affects men's perceptions about women at work is discussed. The study presented here explores a constellation of personality traits and attitudes related to authoritarianism and examines their contribution to a particular pattern of social and political perception.

Motives for occupational goal setting among male and female college students.

“…Whenever the nature of a subject's stated advantage or disadvantage was unclear to the interviewer, the subject was questioned further until the advantage or disadvantage was fully clarified. The use of advantages and disadvantages to tap intrinsic and extrinsic job motives (introduced in Slotnick & Bleiberg, 1974) precluded the problems inherent in using a preselected set of factors.…”

Impact of recruiter authoritarianism and applicant sex on evaluation and selection decisions in a recruitment interview analogue study.

“…Johnson, Johnson, and Martin (1961) found that authoritarian subjects from entrepreneurial backgrounds were more restrictive than nonauthoritarians in the number of behaviors that they considered appropriate to children of both sexes. Slotnick and Bleiberg (1974) administered the Occupational Sex-Typing Scale to male college students. High authoritarians rated significantly more occupations as sex-linked and relegated inferior job positions to females while reserving decisionmaking jobs for males.…”