Background/Context: Students' perceptions of justice, fairness, and order within their schools are arguably key building blocks of socialization to participation within a democratic society. The ideals of justice, fairness, and order within their schools are particularly imperative because the educational system is founded on a belief of democracy…

Assessed perceptions of male and female roles held by undergraduate social work students. Perception of the Ideal Woman as wife and mother was compared with extrafamily values, i.e., perception of the Ideal Woman as career oriented. Students had perceptions of women's and men's roles that basically were not stereotypical. (Author)

The traditional female stereotype described norms for women in that the characteristics were deemed to be "appropriate" for all women. Recent research described three role-based subcategories of women (housewife, professional woman, sex object) which are based on the female homemaking, work, or romantic roles respectively. The subcategories…

Describes a study of 190 first graders' sex typing of the occupations of teacher and principal. Reports that children with female principals were more nonstereotypical than children with male principals and suggests that the presence of both sexes as models for school principal can positively affect children's perceptions. (KH)

In an examination of aspirations for leadership in the United States and Spain, male and female students envisioned themselves as a chief executive officer, vice president, or mid-level manager in an industry with a feminine image (clothing manufacturing) or a masculine image (auto manufacturing). Although men and women perceived these roles as…

Students air their ambivalent views on male and female roles and sexual relationships in today's society. (PG)

Several studies have compared male and female college students on their attitudes about women, while other studies have assessed the attitudes of elementary and secondary school students and of adults. No studies were found in which measurements had been taken in one community over an extended period of time. To examine possible attitude changes…

This study investigated young adults' (N=88) perceptions of their parents' sex role characteristics on the basis of maternal employment status. The object of the study was to assess whether an employed mother's nontraditional role affected perceptions of her sex-role characteristics and those of her husband. In addition, the study looked at the…

This study investigated the effects of the attitude of the reader toward women's changing role on the reader's response to literature that illuminates women's role. Twelve skilled readers, six male and six female high school seniors with I.Q.'s of 120 or above, were selected because their semantic differentials indicated that half favored women's…

The influence of sex-role identity on academic achievement behaviors and attitudes is just beginning to be understood. This paper examines two subject areas, mathematics and English, which have traditionally been sex-typed as male and female domains, respectively. Two mechanisms by which sex-role identity may affect achievement behaviors--value of…

The likelihood that females designate persons of the opposite sex as models more often than do males was investigated. Subjects, 61 boys and 64 girls from the sixth grade, plus 52 males and 83 female college students, indicated which other person, past or present, they would most like to be. Approximately 25% of females designated male models…

The study was designed to investigate perception of conflict and outcome across women's roles. A variation of the Thematic Apperception Test was used. Results suggest educated adult women perceive the worker role as the least problematic. (Author)

Examined college students' perceptions of their ideal man and woman. Both male and female students, regardless of age or major saw the ideal man as having a "balanced" orientation and the ideal woman as having a self-orientation. College students' sex role perceptions appear to have changed. (Author)

Elementary school students were interviewed with the goal of determining characteristics and behavioral patterns they considered appropriate for one sex or the other in participation in sports. Children from kindergarten through the sixth grade were examined and compared by grade, sex, and race in their gender-related attitudes. The instrument…

This study examines the differences and trends in sex-role stereotypes between the original samples used to construct and reverse the Sex-Role Stereotype Questionnaire (SRSQ) in 1968, and a sample of 173 practicing school counselors to whom the SRSQ was administered in the fall of 1975. (Author/EB)