- Author : Pamela Bell Shimp
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- Release : 1973
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- Pages : 124 pages
The Relationship Between Female Sex role Conceptions and Favorable Or Unfavorable Views Toward Women
Download or read book The Relationship Between Female Sex role Conceptions and Favorable Or Unfavorable Views Toward Women written by Pamela Bell Shimp and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A female sex-role inventory was constructed similar to Motz's Role Conception Inventory (1952) to distinguish between modern and traditional sex-role conceptions and the effects of these conceptions on favorable or unfavorable views towards women. The inventory contained thirty-eight items and included means for attaining information on age, marital status, education, and employment. Inventories were administered to 177 female subjects. The majority of subjects scored high in the modern and favorable categories, while traditional and unfavorable categories were not represented. A significant number of subjects were categorized as ambivalent due to their high scores in all categories. The subjects were dividied into subgroups according to age, marital status, education, and type of employment, and statistically compared in terms of Gamma coefficients. Gamma coefficients were relatively high for all computations due to the sloping of the scores from modern-favorable to ambivalent-ambivalent on the tables. High Gammas resulted when high ambivalence occurred among the scores. Results indicated the subdivisions to be contributing factors in the study. Older women and married women produced higher ambivalent scores than did younger and single women respectively; women with at least some college showed less ambivalence than women with no college; and unemployed housewives and non-clerical workers scored higher in the ambivalent category than professionals and students.