Sex role ideology in the Caribbean: Teachers' views in Barbados and St. Lucia
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1991
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In this study, 120 male and 131 female teachers in Barbados and St. Lucia completed the Sex-Role Ideology Scale. As predicted, females were more feminist in their views than males, and Barbadians more feminist than St. Lucians. The great majority of teachers, nevertheless, expressed fairly traditional ideologies, although views concerning occupational equality were more liberal than those relating to other areas of adult male-female relationships. However, factor analytic examination indicated that responses to some items on the scale had been influenced by financial and other considerations as well as, or instead of, sex role beliefs per se