Self-esteem and men's negative stereotypes of women who work

The relationships between self-esteem and attitudes toward women who work w ere explored using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for 4,386 young adult males. Significant, negative associations were found amon g the measures, which suggests that men with low scores on self-esteem tend to oppose the employment of women, while men with high self-esteem scores are likely to approve of women working. These findings support previous res earch on the relationship between self-esteem and prejudice as well as indi cate possible sources of unequal treatment of men and women in the workplac e.