Abstract
Four underlying, common sex role factors were identified via separate factor analyses on husbands' and wives' responses to a battery of Likert items tapping sex role norms. Canonical correlation analyses showed that sex role norms were significantly related to couple and parental demographics. Modern sex role norms were positively related to wife's education, occupational status and income, to wife's mother's occupation and work experience, and to husband's education, but negatively related to presence of young children.
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Schaninger, C.M., Buss, W.C. The relationship of sex-role norms to couple and parental demographics. Sex Roles 15, 77–94 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00287533
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