U. S. Women's Sex-Role Ideology, 1970

Recently collected sex-role attitude data are analyzed with a view to understanding the ideological bases of specific attitudes. Correlation analysis suggests that women do not currently organize all sex-role attitudes along a single dimension, although their outlook toward the sex-based familial division of labor is supported by beliefs about the needs of children and women. Regression analysis of attitudes in relation to personal characteristics suggests that attitudes are at least partly based on group norms or values.