atw: Attitudes Toward Women Scale (ATW)
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Responses by 201 undergraduates at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to Spence, Helmreich, and Stapp's (1974) 15-item Attitudes Toward Women Scale.

data(atw)

A data frame with 201 observations on the following 16 variables.

subj: Subject identification number.
atw01: A woman should be as free as a man to propose marriage.
atw02: Women earning as much as their dates should bear equally the expense when they go out together.
atw03: Women should worry less about their rights and more about becoming good wives and mothers.
atw04: Women should assume their rightful place in business and all the professions along with men.
atw05: The intellectual leadership of a community should be largely in the hands of men.
atw06: Under modern economic conditions with women active outside the home, men should share in household tasks such as washing dishes and doing laundry.
atw07: Sons in a family should be given more encouragement to go to college than daughters.
atw08: It is insulting to women to have the "obey" clause still in the marriage service.
atw09: Swearing and obscenity are more repulsive in the speech of a woman than a man.
atw10: In general, the father should have greater authority than the mother in the bringing up of children.
atw11: Economic and social freedom is worth far more to women than acceptance of the ideal of femininity, which has been set up by men.
atw12: There are many jobs in which men should be given preference over women in being hired or promoted.
atw13: A woman should not expect to go to exactly the same places or to have quite the same freedom of action as a man.
atw14: Women should be given equal opportunity with men for apprenticeship in the various trades.
atw15: It is ridiculous for a woman to run a locomotive and for a man to darn socks.

Administered in the fall of 1999. Participants responded to each item using a 1-7 Likert scale in which 7 indicated “Strongly Agree” and 1 indicated “Strongly Disagree”.

Spence, J. T., Helmreich, R., & Stapp, J. (1975). Ratings of self and peers on sex role attributes and their relation to self-esteem and conceptions of masculinity and femininity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 32(1), 29-39.