A WOMAN'S PLACE IN SOCIETY COMPARATIVE ATTITUDES IN JAPAN, WEST GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES

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Survey findings from personal interviews with respondents in three countries (Japan, West Germany, and the United States) are used to determine differences in attitudes toward the role of women in these respective countries. Findings are first classified for each country by sex and age groups on the basic topics of “men and women”, “marriage”, and “the family”. Overall differences between countries are then analyzed by an application of Quantification Theory (III). It is found that attitudes toward the social role of women range more widely between different countries than between sex or age groups within any given country.