FINDING AGREEMENT AMONG WOMEN ON GENDER ISSUES

This study was done to identify areas of agreement on gender issues. T he sample of 161 students attended California State University at San Luis Obispo and 27 nonuniversity students were friends. Among universi ty students, 112 were women, 49 were men. A questionnaire asked respon dents to indicate agreement on the issues of equal opportunity, sex di fferences, tactics of social change, education, protectionism, sexuali ty, family, and sexual standards for women. Agreement was high among d ifferent groups, men and women, students and nonstudents, old and youn g women, and denominational affiliations. The results were discussed i n terms of building feminist theory and evaluating social policy on ar eas of agreement as depicted in this sample.