Women's Rights and Roles: Attitudes among Black and White Students

Abstract

Research on attitudes toward women's rights and roles held by black and white students has yielded mixed results which may reflect the variety of measures that have been used. The attitudes of black and white, male and female students were examined on the Spence and Helmreich 15-item Attitudes Toward Women Scale, a widely used instrument. A significant main effect for sex indicated that women were more liberal or profeminist than men. There was neither a main effect of nor interaction with race. These findings may be related to prevailing attitudes in our society or specific to this sample.