B. Tuck et al., ADOLESCENTS ATTITUDE TOWARD GENDER-ROLES WITHIN WORK AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO GENDER, PERSONALITY TYPE, AND PARENTAL OCCUPATION, Sex roles, 31(9-10), 1994, pp. 547-558
Information was obtained from 184 females and 157 males enrolled in gr
ade 11 in six urban high schools. The majority of the students were of
European descent (70%), but there were significant percentages of stu
dents who identified themselves as Asian (13%), Polynesian (12%), and
Maori (5%). Approximately three quarters of the mothers were in paid e
mployment. The fathers were primarily employed in white collar work wi
th a small percentage in blue collar jobs. Students completed a Likert
scale assessing attitudes towards the arrangement and division of lab
or within the family and employment. Significant associations were fou
nd between attitudes and the gender of the student, maternal but not p
aternal occupation, and the students' personality type. Adolescent fem
ales held more egalitarian attitudes than males, the adolescents of mo
thers working in 'careers' had more egalitarian attitudes than those w
hose mothers were primarily caregivers, and adolescents with 'social',
'artistic' and 'entrepreneurial' personalities were more egalitarian
than those with 'investigative' personalities.