A study of attitudes toward cultural values and of personal characteristics of men and women over 30 years of age and under 30 years of age showed that men in both age groups and women over 30 years of age are similar in attitudes but that women under 30 years of age are different from all three other groups. The young women are much less traditionally oriented in their attitudes than the other three groups.
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