1991 Volume 42 Issue 11 Pages 949-959
The purpose of this study is to explore gaps between attitudes toward gender roles of male and female students, by using such criteria as attitudes toward role relationships between male and female, the double standard of sexual morals, men's leadership in dating, and energy allocation to occupation and homemaking after marriage. The survey was conducted in January, 1990 to 735 university students in Tokyo and its outskirts. The major findings are as follows :
(1) ISRO (The Index of Sex-Role Orientation, E.A. Dreyer et al.) scores on attitudes toward role relationships between male and female point out that 45% of the female students are innovative type, but about the half of the male students are traditional one.
(2) Compared with female students, male students tend to accept the double standard of sexual morals.
(3) Female students expect that males play leadership roles when they go out together more than male students themselves intend to.
(4) Male students wish to allocate less energy to occupation than their fathers do, and female students hope to allocate less energy to homemaking than their mothers. As a result, the present tendency to give too much attachment to occupation for males and homemaking for females will be relieved in their married life.
