PhD thesis,
Gender role attitudes: Differences among students enrolled at a private church-related university and a public state-supported university and among traditional and nontraditional female majors at both institutions
Memphis State University, PhD Thesis, (1992)
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess the differences in attitudes toward female sex roles among two different populations of college students. Data for this study were drawn from two sources: (1) college female students enrolled in traditional and nontraditional career fields and (2) subjects enrolled in a private, church-related and a state-supported university. The Sex Role Orientation (SRO) inventory developed by Brogan and Kutner (1976) was used to measure attitudes toward sex roles among these two population samplings. Data were analyzed using ANOVA designs at the.05 levels of significance which indicated that there was not a significant difference in SRO scores between traditional and nontraditional majors. However, results of the study indicated that both males and females who were enrolled in a church-supported university had more traditional attitudes toward sex roles than females and males enrolled at a state-supported university, that females who planned to be a full-time homemaker had more traditional sex role attitudes than those who preferred to work full-time, that males who preferred their spouse/future spouse be a full-time homemaker had more traditional sex role attitudes than those who preferred that their wife work full or part-time, and that males enrolled at both private and state-supported institutions had a more traditional attitude than females enrolled at both institutions.
