The Effect of Maternal Employment on the Sex Role Orientation of Adolescents
Description:
The sex-role orientation was determined for 352 high school seniors in Plano, Texas. Using maternal employment status as the independent variable, the students were divided according to full-time employed mothers or full-time homemaker mothers. Results indicated that adolescents of employed mothers had a more liberal sex-role orientation and attitude towards the division of household tasks than adolescents of homemaker mothers. When male and female scores were analyzed separately, the order fro…
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Date:
August 1984
Creator:
Gardner, Kaye E.
Partner:
UNT Libraries