TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1977//
TI  - Sex-role attitudes, identities, and political ideology
JO  - Sex roles
A1  - Hershey, Marjorie Randon
A1  - Sullivan, John L.
SP  - 37
EP  - 57
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
N2  - This study examines whether sex-role identities and attitudes toward sex roles are part of a more general liberal--conservative dimension of political ideology. Survey data are analyzed from two independent random samples of Indiana University students in 1974-1975. Sex-role attitudes are measured by two scales, dealing with evaluations of the traditional sex-based division of labor and levels of sex-stereotyping of various tasks. The Bem Sex Role Inventory is used to measure respondents' sex-role identities. Those who score more liberal or flexible on each measure of sex-role attitudes are also very likely to hold liberal political attitudes. These correlations are strong and consistent enough to indicate that sex-role attitudes fit into a more general liberal--conservative ideology, at least among college students. Correlations between sex-role identities and political attitudes are much weaker. Among men, liberal political attitudes are associated with a more flexible (androgynous) sex-role identity; among women, in contrast, liberal political attitudes are related more consistently to a more traditionally masculine sex-role identity.<p /> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0360-0025
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00289689
ID  - ref1
ER  -