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Development of the Gender Role Attitudes Scale (GRAS) amongst young Spanish people
Desarrollo de la Escala de Actitudes de Rol de Género (EARG) en jóvenes españoles
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Eduardo García-Cuetoa, Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Díaza,
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Corresponding author at: Facultad de Psicología, Plaza Feijóo, s/n, 33003 Oviedo, Spain
, Carolina Bringas-Molledaa, Javier López-Ceperob, Susana Paíno-Quesadac, Luis Rodríguez-Francob
a Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
b Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
c Universidad de Huelva, Spain
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Abstract

Gender roles depend on the attitudes and beliefs about them, which at the same time facilitate the formation of stereotypes that will foster violence in interpersonal relationships in couples. The assessment tools used tend to represent the sexist attitude towards women, without taking into account that men can also be recipients of the same behavior from their partner. The objective of the study is to provide an improved scale for the assessment of gender role attitudes, based on the theoretical perspective of gender equality. The sample comprises 2,136 young Spanish men and women, students in Vocational Training (Spanish acronym FP) and at university in the age range 15-26 years old. The results show the existence of a single bipolar factor - transcendent attitudes vs. sexist attitudes - fulfilling psychometric fit indices, and providing the basis for modifying attitudes depending on the difficulty of the items for such modification. The implications for intervention are oriented based on the perspective of prevention and changing sexist gender attitudes.

KEYWORDS:
Attitudes
Role
Evaluation
Sexism
Instrumental study
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Los roles de género dependen de las actitudes y creencias acerca de los mismos, lo que al mismo tiempo facilita la formación de estereotipos que favorecerán la violencia en las relaciones interpersonales de pareja. Los instrumentos de evaluación utilizados tienden a representar la actitud sexista hacia las mujeres sin tener presente que los hombres pueden ser también receptores del mismo comportamiento por parte de su pareja. El objetivo del estudio es crear una escala mejorada para la evaluación de las actitudes de rol de género, tomando como base la perspectiva teórica de la igualdad de género. La muestra está formada por 2.136 jóvenes españoles de ambos sexos, estudiantes de Formación Profesional (FP) y Universitarios, cuyas edades están en el rango de 15 a 26 años. Los resultados muestran la existencia de un único factor bipolar -actitudes trascendentes vs. actitudes sexistas- cumpliendo los índices de ajuste psicométricos, y ofreciendo las bases de la modificación de las actitudes en función de la dificultad de los ítems para dicho cambio. Las implicaciones para la intervención se orientan en base a la perspectiva de la prevención y el cambio de actitudes sexistas de género.

PALABRAS CLAVE:
Actitudes
rol
evaluación
sexismo
estudio instrumental
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Beliefs or attitudes are among the factors that have a bearing on violent conduct of any type in affective interpersonal relationships in couples. Attitudes facilitate the appearance of gender roles that assign the roles and responsibilities that men and women have in society; they are based on beliefs and opinions that facilitate a stereotyped view and thus encourage discrimination (Ferrer, Bosch, Ramis, Torres, & Navarro, 2006; López-Cepero, Rodríguez-Franco, Rodríguez, & Bringas, 2013). In turn, these gender roles demonstrate their differential effect through variables such as age, sex or level of education (Díaz & Sellami, 2014; Ferrer et al., 2006).

Traditional gender roles involve the allocation of tasks differentiated by sex, mirroring the inequality between males and females taken on by them in the social context. This fact is linked not only to possible violence directed at the partner within affective relationships, but also encourages the justification of abusive behavior. Along the same lines hostile sexism, characterized by distrust and adversarial feelings towards the partner, legitimizes the abuse of women, approving its practice and at the same time placing the blame for this conflict situation on their shoulders (Herrera, Expósito, & Moya, 2012; Lila, Gracia, & García, 2013; Lila, Oliver, Catalá, Galiana, & Gracia, 2014). It is possible that this has a bearing on the labeling of the very situations experienced in affective relationships, offering a perception of their consideration as abuse independently of recognizing specific behavior as abusive (Cortés et al., 2014; López-Cepero, Rodríguez-Franco, Rodríguez-Díaz, Bringas, & Paíno, in press). In turn, women's behavior as regards their partner status in affective relationships will influence the attitudes or perceptions of others. Herrera et al. (2012) state that when women do not accept their partner's decisions they are assessed more negatively, particularly by men with a traditional sexist attitude.

This reality leads to an assessment of sexist attitudes based on the assumption that they have taken shape in a single direction, i.e. the assessment of discriminatory attitudes towards a feminine gender role. Examples of such scales are, amongst others: Hostility Towards Women Scales (Check, Malamuth, Elias, & Barton, 1985), Gender Role Conflict Scale (O’Neil, Helms, Gable, David, & Wrightsman, 1986), Adversarial Heterosexual Beliefs Scale (Lonsway & Fitzgerald, 1995), Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Burt, 1980), and the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Payne, Lonsway, & Fitzgerald, 1999), these latter focusing particularly on sexual aggression and its acceptance. It is true that the literature reports extensive information on discrimination against women, but we must not overlook the fact that although there is less research in this area, women can also have sexist attitudes towards men, i.e. attitudes based on hostility towards their partner or on traditional beliefs that take shape through roles allocated by gender or even sex (Rodríguez Castro, Lameiras, Carrera, & Faílde, 2010; Swim & Hyers, 1999; Travaglia, Overall, & Sibley, 2009).

Similarly, we must not overlook that in contrast to sexist attitudes towards role, there are also transcendent attitudes that must be assessed as defenders of equality from an egalitarian perspective (Baber & Tucker, 2006; López-Cepero et al., 2013). Other instruments that aim to measure inequality between men and women are the Attitudes Toward Men Inventory (AMI; Glick & Fiske, 1999) and the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI) (Glick & Fiske, 1996), this inequality being able to be expressed in a hostile or benevolent manner. In contrast, there is an instrument which in addition to measuring inequality also assesses equality between sexes, defining an attitudinal typology based on role characteristics: the Social Roles Questionnaire (SRQ-R; Baber & Tucker, 2006), assessing sexist and egalitarian attitudes and pointing out that both sexes can equally be recipients. The differences in each type of attitude must be emphasized, since the literature has highlighted the possible relationship between these attitudes and a higher or lower tolerance of potential abuse situations (Rodríguez-Franco, Antuña, López-Cepero, Rodríguez-Díaz, & Bringas, 2012). This leads us to propose as an objective the preparation of a new scale for the assessment of gender role attitudes using the approaches offered by the theoretical perspective of gender equality, having an effect on the contribution of how sexist attitudes may be modified.

MethodParticipants

The sample is made up of 2,136 young Spanish people aged 15 to 26 years old (M= 19.43; SD= 1.98) who have had a dating relationship lasting at least one month. Distribution by sex is 838 males (39.2%) and 1,298 females (60.8%), by educational level, students in Vocational Training (n= 1,225) 57.4%, within which 635 males (51.8%) and 590 females (48.2%), and university students (n= 911) 42.6%, within which 203 males (22.3%) and 708 females (77.7%). The low level of employment among the sample is to be noted: 88 males and 129 females are in employment (10.7% and 10.1%, respectively), by educational level there are 115 FP students (9.6%) and 102 university students (11.2%) in paid employment.

Instruments

Initial assessment was by an ad hoc sociodemographic questionnaire which gathered relevant personal data for the research: age, sex, educational level and academic year (Rodríguez-Franco et al., 2010). The starting point for the Gender Role Attitudes Scale (GRAS) was to select a set of items described as indicators of sexism by young victims in dating relationships; unanimous statements of identification functions - egalitarian and/or expressing a sexist function in the relationship - for their aggressors. The study participants have identified 20 items out of a total of 50 - taken mainly from those used in the Social Role Questionnaire (SRQ-R; Baber & Tucker, 2006), the Inventario de Pensamientos Distorsionados sobre la Mujer [Inventory of Distorted Thinking about Women] (PDM; Echeburúa & Fernández-Montalvo, 1998), the scale of Ideología de Rol de Género [Gender Role Ideology] (EIG; Moya, Expósito, & Padilla, 2006) and the Escala de Actitudes del Alumno hacia la Coeducación [Scale of Student Attitudes to Coeducation] (SDG; García-Pérez et al., 2010) -making changes to the formulation of the items. These items reflect attitudes which identify the gender role to be played in society as regards equality (e.g. “People should be treated equally, regardless of their sex”) or sexism in social functions (e.g. “I think it is worse for a man to cry than for a woman”), employment (e.g. “Only some kinds of job are equally appropriate for men and women”) and family (e.g. “Mothers should make most of the decisions about how to bring up their children”). The attitudes scale offers five answer options, graded using a Likert scale from 1 to 5, where 1 is (Totally agree) and 5 is (Totally disagree). See Appendix 1.

Data analysis

The items discrimination study is carried out using the corrected item-test correlation (Moreno, Martínez, García-Cueto, Fidalgo de las Heras, & Muñiz, 2005), whilst reliability is calculated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient for ordinal data (Elosua & Zumbo, 2008) and the score normality study using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test. Establishing validity evidence is carried out by randomly dividing the sample into three approximately equal groups of 702, 740 and 694 participants respectively. The first of these has been used to undertake an exploratory factor analysis. Used as input is the matrix of polychoric correlations between items; the pertinence of performing factor analysis on data is calculated using Bartlett's test index and the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test, the extraction method being unweighted least squares. The number of factors is determined by Optimal Implementation of Parallel Analysis (PA) (Timmerman & Lorenzo-Seva, 2011) with 10,000 resampling operations, the goodness-of-fit of the data to the model is established through percentage of total variance explained by the factors, the goodness-of-fit index (GFI) and Root Mean Square of Residuals (RMSR) (Lorenzo-Seva & Ferrando, 2006). The other two random groups permit performance of a confirmatory factor analysis using the cross-validity method in order to take modeling error correlations in the first sample into account and keep them in the second sample to find the best fit; the factor extraction method used was robust maximum likelihood on a matrix of polychoric correlations, data fit to model established by χ2/g.l., the Comparative Fit Index (CFI) and the Root Mean Square of Residuals (RMSR) (Kline, 2005).

Subsequently, and in order to have evidence of the accuracy of measurement and the possibility of some indication of the viability of changing attitudes towards gender role, the data are analyzed using IRT hypotheses (Samejima's graded response model). The graded response model is a particular instance of the 2-parameter logistic model (Samejima, 1969), which through the results offers: 1) information on test measurement accuracy for participant scores across all the latent continuous variables (θ) being studied using the test information function; 2) the discriminatory capacity of each item in the score calculation for each person in the variable. Value of parameter a of the model; 3) the value of parameter b indicates, for a given level of the variable measured, the likelihood of choosing a specific response category or a higher one. Specifically, Samejima (1969) used a cumulative process in which the characteristic curve for category “k” indicates the likelihood of reaching this category or the next ones, dependent on the location of the subject in the trait (P(Xi≥ k |θ); therefore, a possible interpretation applied depends on the values taken on by this parameter thus revealing which items/traits it would be “easier” to intervene on in order to modify this aspect. The traits easiest to modify will be those for which the difference between b4–b1 is lower, so lower values indicate greater ease for making this change.

Lastly, a differential analysis of the sample is undertaken, both by sex and by educational level, for which the Mann-Whitney U test has been used, at the same time as grading the data on a T-score scale (M=50, SD=10).

Data analysis is carried out using SPSS 19.0, FACTOR 9.2, Mplus 6.12 and MULTILOG 7.03.

Results

The items discrimination index (corrected item-test correlation) ranges between .92 and .39, i.e. all are within acceptable values. The test is highly reliable, with an alpha coefficient of .99. In turn, the results of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test do not permit the univariate normality hypothesis to be maintained either for item scores or total scale score.

The results of the exploratory factor analysis using the Parallel Analysis carried out recommend the extraction of a single factor, both Bartlett's test statistics (13104.9 -g.l.=190, p=.000010-) and the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test (0.97) indicating that the data meet the correct conditions for undergoing factor analysis as regards item intercorrelations; the total variance percentage explained by the factor (67.5%) and the values of both GFI (.999) and RMSR (.048) show a good fit of data in a one-dimensional model.

The confirmatory factor analysis carried out with each of the remaining random samples enables us to confirm that the values obtained indicate excellent goodness-of-fit of the data to the one-dimensional model (Table 1).

Table 1.

Confirmatory factor analysis fit index.

  Sample 2 (n=740)  Sample 3 (n=694) 
RMSEA  .053  .055 
CFI  .969  .969 
SRMR  .045  .034 

Using the complete sample, the factor weights of each one of the variables were calculated. The results show very high factor weights of the factor items, ranging from .45 to .98 (Table 2).

Table 2.

Factor weights of each of the items in the transcendent vs. sexism gender role attitude bipolar factor.

Items  Factor weights  Items  Factor weights 
.68  11  .91 
.94  12  .91 
.84  13  .80 
.94  14  .96 
.86  15  .44 
.86  16  .56 
.62  17  .58 
.97  18  .74 
.94  19  .64 
10  .91  20  .89 

On the other hand, data analysis by ITR using Samejima's graded response model produces the Test Characteristic Curve (TCC) where the unbroken line is the information function and the dotted line is typical measurement error. The x-axis represents score in the variable studied. In this way and as can be seen, the test is more accurate, with greater information and lower typical error for the central values of the variable (see Figure 1). Likewise, the results shown in Table 3 reveal that the idea most easy to change would be “People should be treated equally, regardless of their sex” (item 2) and the most stubbornly held and hardest to change and intervene on would be “I think it is right that in my circles of friends, my future domestic activity is considered more important than my professional activity” (item 14).

Figure 1.

Item information function.

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Table 3.

Parameters a and b of IRT.

  b1  b2  b3  b4  B4–b1 
Item 1  1.36991  -1.07325  -0.21389  0.34558  1.1924  2.26565 
Item 2  3.72031  -0.08025  0.17132  0.25014  0.42775  0.508 
Item 3  2.38667  -0.69709  -0.11694  0.23921  0.76675  1.46384 
Item 4  4.01777  -0.31007  0.09629  0.22963  0.4864  0.79647 
Item 5  2.68059  -0.47539  -0.06124  0.16072  0.45724  0.93263 
Item 6  2.64285  -0.65041  -0.04473  0.28362  0.75836  1.40877 
Item 7  1.32302  -1.52765  -0.41346  0.23908  1.24827  2.77592 
Item 8  5.90929  -0.34766  0.00874  0.2038  0.48051  0.82817 
Item 9  4.20431  -0.48493  -0.0753  0.25774  0.58006  1.06499 
Item 10  3.25398  -0.5872  -0.09205  0.25975  0.71086  1.29806 
Item 11  3.41359  -0.54328  -0.06917  0.22506  0.67992  1.2232 
Item 12  4.94607  -0.5249  -0.07064  0.20622  0.55144  1.07634 
Item 13  3.19205  -0.49083  -0.04626  0.2795  0.69061  1.18144 
Item 14  0.81575  -2.90303  -1.31193  0.52083  2.05563  4.95866 
Item 15  1.07494  -2.23988  -0.99342  0.64453  2.03316  4.27304 
Item 16  1.11501  -1.69191  -0.68638  0.40014  1.59072  3.28263 
Item 17  1.73942  -1.02961  -0.29231  0.28892  0.92026  1.94987 
Item 18  2.09579  -1.15711  -0.39673  0.34092  1.13044  2.28755 
Item 19  1.33572  -1.60666  -0.62556  0.37871  1.49916  3.10582 
Item 20  2.82315  -0.82244  -0.33483  0.20289  0.76698  1.58942 

Lastly, interindividual differential analysis using the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test will show statistically significant differences depending on the educational level of study participants - university vs. Vocational Training - (p<.001), with a value of Z= -30.16, and between males and females (p=.014), with a value of Z= -2.46. The grading can be seen in Table 4.

Table 4.

Grading of Gender Role Attitudes Scale by sex on T-score scale (M=50, SD=10) and centiles.

MalesFemales
PD  PD  PD  PD 
20  30  61  54  72  20  36  61  50  52 
21  31  62  54  73  21  36  62  50  52 
22  31  63  55  74  22  36  63  51  53 
23  31  64  56  75  23  37  64  51  53 
24  32  65  56  75  24  37  65  51  53 
25  33  66  57  76  25  37  66  52  53 
26  33  67  57  77  26  38  67  52  53 
27  34  68  58  77  27  38  11  68  52  53 
28  35  69  58  78  28  38  13  69  53  53 
29  35  70  59  79  29  39  15  70  53  53 
30  36  71  60  80  30  39  17  71  53  53 
31  36  72  60  80  31  39  20  72  54  54 
32  37  73  61  82  32  40  23  73  54  54 
33  38  74  61  82  33  40  25  74  55  54 
34  38  10  75  62  83  34  41  27  75  55  54 
35  39  11  76  63  84  35  41  29  76  55  54 
36  39  13  77  63  85  36  41  33  77  56  55 
37  40  15  78  64  85  37  42  35  78  56  55 
38  40  17  79  64  86  38  42  37  79  56  56 
39  41  19  80  65  88  39  42  38  80  57  57 
40  42  21  81  65  88  40  43  40  81  57  57 
41  42  24  82  66  90  41  43  42  82  57  58 
42  43  26  83  67  91  42  43  43  83  58  60 
43  43  30  84  67  91  43  44  45  84  58  61 
44  44  33  85  68  93  44  44  46  85  58  62 
45  44  36  86  68  95  45  44  46  86  59  64 
46  45  38  87  69  96  46  45  47  87  59  66 
47  46  40  88  70  97  47  45  48  88  59  69 
48  46  43  89  70  97  48  45  48  89  60  73 
49  47  46  90  71  98  49  46  49  90  60  75 
50  47  49  91  71  98  50  46  49  91  60  78 
51  48  53  92  72  99  51  46  50  92  61  81 
52  49  55  93  72  99  52  47  50  93  61  84 
53  49  57  94  73  99  53  47  51  94  62  86 
54  50  60  95  74  99  54  48  51  95  62  89 
55  50  62  96  74  100  55  48  51  96  62  92 
56  51  64  97  75  100  56  48  52  97  63  94 
57  51  66  98  76  100  57  49  52  98  63  96 
58  52  67  99  77  100  58  49  52  99  63  98 
59  53  69  100  78  100  59  49  52  100  64  100 
60  53  71        60  50  52       
Discussion and conclusions

The purpose of the study has been to construct an improved scale for the assessment of gender role attitudes. Based on the existing scales in the literature on sexist attitudes, we have tried to include in our proposal the principal processes in our socialization - family, social interrelations and employment. To do so, items from different scales have been taken into account, in addition to other elements considered in the literature or in questionnaires previously used with victims of violence experienced within an affective relationship, and that reflected both egalitarian and sexist attitudes.

The result is the GRAS made up of 20 items with five answer options for each item. Items are classified in terms of attempting to identify attitudes held by both males and females that encourage aggressive behavior within dating relationships among adolescents, (Baber & Tucker, 2006; Glick & Fiske, 1996, 1999; López-Cepero et al., 2013). This grouping has been distributed into two categories - transcendent attitudes vs. sexist attitudes - which in turn are subdivided into three areas: family, social interrelations and employment. The final vision of the instrument has been set up as a scale representing a bipolar dimension classified by the research team into: two items of Transcendent Attitudes in Family Function; four showing Transcendent Attitudes in Social Interrelation Function; the same number showing Sexism in Family Function and Social Function; and lastly six for Sexism in Employment Function.

At the same time as confirming the existence of a single factor which fulfills all the necessary fit indices (percentage of explained variance, GFI, RMSR, RMSEA, CFI, and SRMR), the psychometric properties of the scale offer a reliability coefficient of .99. Similarly, the factor weights results for each of the variables show high values, without this meaning that their relevance for determining the factor is lessened.

On the one hand, the results obtained, in addition to confirming their repetition, show the commonality found in the information in our scale for each of the categories set out in the different areas considered. On the other, accepting that a change in behavior first requires a change in attitude, we have attempted to discover what positions of the instrument used offer the highest likelihood of being able to be changed. In this respect, we have seen that the easiest idea to change belongs to the category Transcendent Attitude in Social Function: “People should be treated equally, regardless of their sex”; likewise, two other attitudes liable to be changed belong to this same category: “Boys have the same obligations to help with household chores as girls” and “Household chores must not be allocated by sex”. These statements show that treating both sexes equally could mean lower likelihood of aggressive behavior by either partner in adolescent dating relationships.

Bearing in mind that our study population sample is young, the results obtained invite us to be cautiously optimistic and think that upbringing styles appear to be changing in our society (Ferrer et al., 2006). This opens up the possibility of developing a more egalitarian gender role attitude, which we will need to confirm in subsequent studies where both members of the couple exclude violent conduct from their behavioral repertory.

By contrast, the category which appears to be most resistant to change is that shown by the items of Sexism in Social Function: “I think it is right that in my circles of friends, my future domestic activity is considered more important than my professional activity”, followed by those in the Employment Function grouping: “A father's main responsibility is to help his children financially”, and “Some jobs are not appropriate for women”, which may be a true reflection of the reality observed in our context - it is, furthermore, reasonable to think that it really is very difficult to change this belief and this attitude to role so deeply embedded in the gender roles to be performed by each sex. That is to say, these attitudes involve the most deeply rooted positions where gender is imposed by power - males vs. females - encouraging discrimination, particularly in employment. This is coherent with the studies of Herrera et al. (2012), Lila et al. (2014) and López-Cepero et al. (2013), who all point out a greater predisposition towards violence within affective relationships as a product of such attitudes, which should make victimization and perception of abuse possible in the world in which we live.

In sum, it is important to highlight the use of a sample made up of young people, since very little research has been carried out on this group. Using the knowledge acquired in the area, this is highly relevant for preventing the appearance and upholding of attitudes that have a negative bearing on relationships in couples and are the precursor to acceptance of violent behavior. Another strength of the research lies in the instrument designed to carry it out, which attempts to offer a wide perspective on attitudes by organizing them into two categories (egalitarian and sexist) and looking at three different contexts (family, social and employment). Also worth noting are the differences existing around two important variables (sex and educational level), our GRAS offering better information on attitudes for assessing change, one of its strengths being that it includes males and females (without segregating the information) and, on the other, that it allows the researcher to work without having to take the sexual orientation of the person being assessed into account, which has practical implications in the healthcare area. To sum up, the analysis enables the attitudes more liable to be changed to be identified, proposing the alternatives possible in order to set out the guidelines for designing prevention and intervention programs for dealing with abuse situations.

We are aware that these implications have a limitation that needs to be corrected in future studies in this area of research, insofar as establishing its construct validity and discrimination capacity will be included in more extensive assessments of abuse perceived or unperceived by victims, or its relationship with the presence or absence of violent behavior suffered or received in dating relationships between young couples.

Funding

This research was funded by the Ministry of Health, Social Policy and Equality (SUBMINMU012/009).

Appendix 1
Gender Role Attitudes Scale (GRAS).

1. SFT  People can be aggressive and understanding, regardless of their sex [Las personas pueden ser tanto agresivas y comprensivas, independientemente de su sexo
2. SFT  People should be treated equally, regardless of their sex [Se debería tratar a las personas igual, independientemente del sexo al que pertenezcan
3. SFT  Children should be given freedom depending on their age and how mature they are, not depending on their sex [A los niños se les debería dar libertad en función de su edad y nivel de madurez, y no por el sexo de pertenecía
4. FFT  Boys have the same obligations to help with household chores as girls [Los chicos tienen las mismas obligaciones de ayudar en las tareas del hogar que las chicas
5. FFT  Household chores should not be allocated by sex [Las tareas domésticas no deberían asignarse por sexos
6. SFT  We should stop thinking about whether people are men or women and focus on other characteristics [Deberíamos dejar de pensar si las personas son hombre o mujer y centrarnos en otras características
7. FFS  My partner thinking that I am responsible for doing the household chores would cause me stress [El que mi pareja considere que yo soy la responsable de las tareas domésticas me crearía tensión
8. FFS  The husband is responsible for the family so the wife must obey him [El marido es el responsable de la familia por lo que la mujer le debe obedecer
9. SFS  A woman must not contradict her partner [Una mujer no debe llevar la contraria a su pareja
10. SFS  I think it is worse to see a man cry than a woman [Me parece que es más lamentable ver a un hombre llorar que a una mujer
11. SFS  Girls should be more clean and tidy than boys [Una chica debe ser más limpia y ordenada que un chico
12. EFS  Men should occupy posts of responsibility [Es preferible que los puestos de responsabilidad los ocupen los hombres
13. FFS  I think boys should be brought up differently than girls [Creo que se debe educar de modo distinto a los niños que a las niñas
14. SFS  I think it is right that in my circles of friends, my future domestic activity is considered more important than my professional activity [Considero correcto que en mis círculos de amistades se valore más mi actividad familiar futura que la profesional
15. EFS  A father's main responsibility is to help his children financially [La principal responsabilidad de un padre es ayudar económicamente a sus hijos
16. EFS  Some jobs are not appropriate for women [Algunos trabajos no son apropiados para las mujeres
17. EFS  I accept that in my circle of friends, my partner's future job is considered more important than mine [Acepto que en mi círculo de amistades el trabajo futuro de mi pareja se valore más que el mío
18. FFS  Mothers should make most of the decisions on how to bring up their children [Las madres deberían tomar la mayor parte de las decisiones sobre cómo educar a los hijos
19. EFS  Only some kinds of job are equally appropriate for men and women [Solo algunos tipos de trabajo son apropiados tanto para hombres como para mujeres
20. EFS  In many important jobs it is better to contract men than women [En muchos trabajos importantes es mejor contratar a hombres que a mujeres

Note. Family Function Transcendent (FFT); Social Function Transcendent (SFT); Family Function Sexism (FFS); Social Function Sexism (SFS); Employment Function Sexism (EFS).

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