Trends in United States Men's and Women's Sex-Role Attitudes: 1972 to 1978

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Women's sex-role attitudes have shown steadily increasing support for nontraditional sex roles from the early 1960s to early 1970s, and their sex-role attitudes have become increasingly consistent. Data in this study show that these trends for white women have continued from 1972 to 1975 and that the levels of egalitarianism and attitude consistency attained in 1975 were maintained through 1978. White men exhibited as much change in the egalitarian direction as did white women between 1972 and 1978; by 1978, white men's sex-role attitudes resembled those of white women. White men's sex-role attitudes also became more consistent between 1972 and 1975. Changes in sex-role attitude consistency for whites could not be accounted for by changes in liberal-conservative political attitudes. Black men's and women's sex-role attitudes showed no significant changes between 1972 and 1978; however, small sample size precluded detailed analyses of these trends.

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