Emerging Sex-Role Attitudes, Expectations, and Strains among College Women

Questionnaire data are used to assess the attitudes qf female college students toward various dimensions of their adult sex roles, their perceptions of men's attitudes toward women's roles, the degree to which these attitudes and perceptions have changed between 1969 and 1973, and the possibility that strains are arising with these changes. A marked shift toward feminism was found in the women's attitudes, but little change occurred in their perception qf men as relatively conservative. Strains may be developing as more women adopt attitudes which they believe men reject.