The present study assessed the correlations between the personality characteristics and sex-stereotyped attitudes of 20 male and 20 female preschool teachers and 20 male engineers. Masculine genders held masculine-preferred attitudes toward children while feminine genders held feminine-preferred attitudes toward children.
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