bss: Benevolent Sexism Scale
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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(bss)

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

subj: Subject identification number.
bss01: No matter how accomplished he is, a man is not truly complete as a person unless he has the love of a woman.
bss02: In a disaster, women ought not necessarily to be rescued before men.
bss03: People are often truly happy in life without being romantically involved with a member of the other sex.
bss04: Many women have a quality of purity that few men possess.
bss05: Women should be cherished and protected by men.
bss06: Every man ought to have a woman whom he adores.
bss07: Men are complete without women.
bss08: A good woman should be set on a pedestal by her man.
bss09: Women, compared to men, tend to have a superior moral sensibility.
bss10: Men should be willing to sacrifice their own well being in order to provide financially for the women in their lives.
bss11: Women, as compared to men, tend to have a more refined sense of culture and good taste.

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.