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The Effect of Maternal Employment on the Sex Role Orientation of Adolescents

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 from most liberal to least liberal was females of employed mothers, females of homemaker mothers, males of employed mothers, and males of homemaker mothers. The mean scores indicated a nontraditional attitude. The study also indicated that maternal happiness with employment did not affect male and female sex-role orientation.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504360
Date08 1900
CreatorsGardner, Kaye E.
ContributorsLaBrecque, Suzanne V. (Suzanne Volin) 1946-, Medler, Byron, Nies, Joyce I.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 100 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Gardner, Kaye E., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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