Predictors of women's sex role attitudes across two cultures

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The English Form of the Scale of Egalitarian Sex Role Attitudes (SESRA) was administered to 238 American women after the original Japanese Form was developed and administered to 420 Japanese women. The multiple regression analyses suggest that the most important common predicting variables of sex role attitudes for American and Japanese women are education (p<.01 and p<.0001 respectively) and professional/managerial work (p<.01 and p<.001 respectively). A highly educated woman with a career-oriented professional/managerial job is most likely to have an egalitarian sex role attitude. Moreover, an American woman with a job (clerical/semi-professional/self-employed: p<.05) tends to have a more egalitarian sex role attitude than a woman without one. However, for Japanese women, there is a significant difference in their sex role attitudes between women who hold a career-oriented professional/managerial job and all other women, with or without a job. For Japanese women age (p<.05, negative correlation) serves as another, but weaker, predicting variable. Fertility (p<.05) and income (p<.05, negative correlation) are the parallel subordinate predicting variables for American women.

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