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- Title
Attitudes Toward Women and Their Work Roles: Effects of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religious Orientations.
- Authors
Jones, Barbara H.; McNamara, Kathleen
- Abstract
This study examined the effects of personal religious orientation, religious denomination, and gender on attitudes toward women and their work roles using a sample of 263 single undergraduate university students. Subjects with a high intrinsic religious orientation put significantly more emphasis on family than career in their anticipated general lifestyle relative to those with a low intrinsic religious orientation. Subjects with a high intrinsic religious orientation were also more likely to anticipate the female spouse spending less time in a profession during the children's early years. Males showed more traditional attitudes toward women than females, but there were no gender effects on measures of preferred general lifestyle, preferred child-care distribution, or preferred career involvement for the wife. Subjects belonging to mainline and conservative denomination did not differ significantly in their attitudes toward women or their work roles.
- Subjects
RELIGIOUS thought; RELIGION &; gender; SPIRITUAL life; FEMALES; BELIEF &; doubt; RELIGIOUS life of women; LIFESTYLES; OCCUPATIONAL roles; GENDER role; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Sex Roles, 1991, Vol 24, Issue 1-2, p21
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00288700