Sex-role attitudes across two cultures: United States and India

Rao, V. V. Prakasa; Rao, V. Nandini

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“…They suggest that gender-role ideologies may be described as liberal, modern, feminist, or egalitarian on the one hand, or as traditional or conservative on the other hand (e.g., Bollman, Schumm, Bugaighis, & Jurich, 1988;Colley, Nash, O'Donnell, & Restorick, 1987;Daugherty & Dambrot, 1986;Fine-Davis, 1983; Kahn & Richardson, 1983; Kalin et al, 1982;Niles, 1994). In fact, all of the studies described above made a similar distinction (Bankart, 1985;Basow, 1982Basow, , 1986Caballero, 1971;Chia et al, 1994;Furnham & Karani, 1985;Intons-Peterson, 1988;Kalin et al, 1982;Kremer & Curry, 1987;Morgan & Grube, 1987; Morinaga et al, 1993;Pkrez-Prada et al, 1990;Rao & Rao, 1985;Spence & Helmreich, 1978;Suzuki, 1991;Tan-Willman, 1979;Tuck et al, 1994;Williams & Best, 1990a, 1990b. This dimension may be the most promising candidate for an etic with regard to gender-role ideology.…”

Section: Cross-cultural and Cross-national Studies Of Gender Roles: Ementioning

confidence: 94%

“…That is, in most settings men and boys endorse a more traditional gender-role ideology than do women and girls. This phenomenon appears to be widespread and has been found in samples from the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Finland, England, Italy, the Philippines, Venezuela, the United States, Canada, Singapore, Japan, India, Nigeria, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Israel, Brazil, Iceland, Slovenia, Fiji, Taiwan, and New Zealand (Bankart, 1985;Basow, 1982Basow, ,1986Caballero, 1971;Chia et al, 1994;Damji & Lee, 1995;Daugherty & Dambrot, 1986;Diwan & Menezes, 1992;Furnham & Karani, 1985;Intons-Peterson, 1988;Kalin et d., 1982;Kremer & Curry, 1987;Morgan & Grube, 1987;Morinaga, et al, 1993;Pkrez-Prada et al, 1990;Rao & Rao, 1985;Seginer et al, 1990;Spence & Helmreich, 1978;Suzuki, 1991;Tan-Willman, 1979;Tuck et al, 1994;Williams & Best, 1990a, 1990b as well as in samples of international students in the Netherlands (Gibbons, Stiles, & Morton, 1990). It may not be universal, however.…”

Section: Cross-cultural and Cross-national Studies Of Gender Roles: Ementioning

confidence: 99%

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Researching Gender-Role Ideologies Internationally and Cross-Culturally

Gibbons

Hamby

Dennis

1997

Psychology of Women Quarterly

139

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Although many studies have compared gender‐role ideologies internationally and cross‐culturally, few researchers have attended to cultural differences in the meaningfulness or conceptual equivalence of the scale items. The literature on the use of instruments internationally is reviewed with respect to potentially universal (etic) constructs and findings. Gender differences in attitudes and the domains in which gender‐related behavior is expressed differ internationally. A potential universal dimension is represented by a modern, egalitarian ideology on the one pole and a traditional ideology on the other. Using scales developed in three cultural contexts, we demonstrate that ratings of meaningfulness are correlated with the use of scores distant from the midpoint. Specific recommendations for researchers include consultation with cultural informants and incorporation of culturally specific (emic) items.

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Section: Cross-cultural and Cross-national Studies Of Gender Roles: Ementioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Cross-cultural and Cross-national Studies Of Gender Roles: Ementioning

confidence: 99%

Researching Gender-Role Ideologies Internationally and Cross-Culturally

Gibbons

Hamby

Dennis

1997

Psychology of Women Quarterly

139

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“…Although both men and women have become less traditional in their sex role attitudes over time in Japan and the U.S. (e. g., Akiyaltia, 1990;Mason & Lu, 1988), with minor exceptions (e. g., Quarm, 1983), women are reported more egalitarian than men in their sex role attitudes (e. g., Akiyama, 1990;Azuma & Ogura, 1984;Bankart, 1985;Cherlin & Walters, 1981;King & King, 1985;Martin, Osinond, Hesselbart, & Wood, 1980;Mason & Lu, 1988;McBroom, 1987;Nelson, 1988;Osmond & Martin, 1975;Thornton, Alwin, & Camburn, 1983). This is also true for men and women in other countries where the research was done (e. g., Haworth, Povey, & Clift, 1986;Joesting, 1982;Rao & Rao, 1985;Tomeh, 1981;Tomeh & Gallant, 1984). It may be safely said that sex is one of the most important variables in predicting sex role attitudes.…”

Section: Sexmentioning

confidence: 90%

Predictors of women's sex role attitudes across two cultures

Suzuki

1991

Jpn. Psychol. Res

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The English Form of the Scale of Egalitarian Sex Role Attitudes (SESRA) was administered to 238 American women after the original Japanese Form was developed and administered to 420 Japanese women. The multiple regression analyses suggest that the most important common predicting variables of sex role attitudes for American and Japanese women are education (p<.01 and p<.0001 respectively) and professional/managerial work (p<.01 and p<.001 respectively). A highly educated woman with a career-oriented professional/managerial job is most likely to have an egalitarian sex role attitude. Moreover, an American woman with a job (clerical/semi-professional/self-employed: p<.05) tends to have a more egalitarian sex role attitude than a woman without one. However, for Japanese women, there is a significant difference in their sex role attitudes between women who hold a career-oriented professional/ managerial job and all other women, with or without a job. For Japanese women age (p< .05, negative correlation) serves as another, but weaker, predicting variable. Fertility (p<.05) and income (p<.05, negative correlation) are the parallel subordinate predicting variables for American women.

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“…Religious affiliation is another variable which has been investigated (e.g. Furnham & Karani, 1985;Rao & Rao, 1985), and it has been suggested that this is possibly becoming an increasingly salient factor in determining sex role beliefs (Thornton et al, 1983).…”

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Adolescents' Attitudes to the Role of Women

Furnham

Gunter

1988

Educational Studies

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Over 500 British adolescents aged between 12 and 20 completed a questionnaire concerning their attitudes to the role of women. Relatively few of the 27 items yielded high consensus among the subjects. There were numerous sex differences which showed males to be more traditional and conservative in their attitudes to women than females. About half the items yielded significant age differences, but almost none class differences, with older children being more liberal and egalitarian in their attitude. By and large, these findings are in accordance with previous studies in the area. The results are discussed in terms of the socialisation of sex differences.

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Sex-role attitudes across two cultures: United States and India

Cited by 16 publications

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Researching Gender-Role Ideologies Internationally and Cross-Culturally

Researching Gender-Role Ideologies Internationally and Cross-Culturally

Predictors of women's sex role attitudes across two cultures

Adolescents' Attitudes to the Role of Women

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