atw: Attitudes Toward Women Scale (ATW)

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Description

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.

Usage

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Format

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.

Details

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”.

References

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.

Examples

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