Sixty-nine dyads consisting of an adolescent (age 15 or 16) and his
or her parent living in the Polish-speaking region of the Czech
Republic completed the adolescent or short version of the Attitudes
Toward Women Scale (Galambos, Petersen, Richards, & Gitelson,
1985; Spence, Helmreich, & Stapp, 1973). The attitudes of parents
and their adolescent children were significantly correlated, and the
younger generation expressed less traditional attitudes than did
their parents. In addition, mothers and adolescent girls held more
egalitarian (less traditional) beliefs than did their male counterparts. These results suggest that attitudes toward women's roles
may be becoming less traditional in the Czech Republic as in other
parts of the world and that even in a rapidly changing society,
parents and their adolescent children share beliefs about appropriate gender roles.
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