The purpose of this study was to identify gender-role identities of young women in an urban area and their stereotypes on gender-role education for young children. The subjects consisted of 230 women aged 20s and 30s from 'A' city. Bem's BSRI and a qu...
The purpose of this study was to identify gender-role identities of young women in an urban area and their stereotypes on gender-role education for young children. The subjects consisted of 230 women aged 20s and 30s from 'A' city. Bem's BSRI and a questionnaire of stereotypes on gender-role education were used to collect data. The data was analyzed by x^2 -test, t-test, and one-way ANOVA using the SPSS PC program for Windows.
The major findings were as follows:
(1) In terms of gender-role identity types, 'undifferentiated' type was the most prevalent of all four types. The rank order of distribution of other types was 'androgynous', 'feminity', and 'masculinity' respectively. Significant group difference was found in young women's gender-role identity types as functions of marital status. However, no significant group difference was found in young women's gender-role identity types as functions of age level and education level.
(2) In terms of stereotypes on gender-role education for young children, the young women in this had relatively low level of gender-role stereotypes in general. in overall, significant group difference was found in young women's gender-role stereotypes as functions of marital status, age level and education level. That is, composed with the participants in the 'unmarried group', participants in the 'married group' showed higher degree of gender-role stereotypes. Compared with the participants in the 'younger-aged group', participants in the 'older-aged group' showed higher degree of gender-role stereotypes. Compared with the participants in the 'high education group', participants in the 'low education group' showed higher degree of gender-role stereotypes.
(3) There was no significant difference between women's gender-role identity types and the degree of their stereotypes on gender-role education for young children.
The limitations and implications of the findings from this study were discussed with respect to further studies.