This study examined the structure of professional women's attitudes toward the dual roles encompassed in motherhood and occupational career. A dual-role scale of 19 items was constructed and with other scales given female faculty members each with at least one child at home. Factor analytical techniques produced a three-dimensional attitudinal model: the career as enriching family life, role equality, and primary role priority. Relationships between these anitudinal components and other measures of feminine involvement and demographic variables are presented.
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