Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, examined gender-based segregation of family labor, focusing on effects of time availability, family power, and gender role ideology. Found American couples exhibited highly sex-segregated family work patterns. (Author/ABL)

Students categorized 15 words as either masculine or feminine items, then rated the degree to which they liked each item. Results showed that girls significantly preferred items associated with their own sex and assigned more value to feminine items. No significant effect due to race was found. (Author)

A total of 40 boys and girls, ages 9-10 years, were asked to respond to aggressive statements attributed to cartoon figures varying in sex. Findings are interpreted as support for a role interpretation of sex differences in expression of aggression. (Author/ED)

Examined national sample of 680 married couples. Found that husbands believed in innate sex roles significantly more than wives did. Each partner's beliefs directly influenced the other's, controlling for age, education, and religion. The more one spouse believed that sex roles were innate, the more the other tended to believe in them also.…

Results indicated that although mothers' and fathers' perceptions did not tend to differ from each other, their perceptions of sons as opposed to daughters did tend to differ, as a function of the infants' age. (Author/MP)

In each of two experiments employing a 2 X 2 X 2 design, girls and boys observed a live male or female model display of appropriate (to the child's sex) or inappropriate behavior. Results indicated an interaction between sex of child and appropriateness. Boys were found to imitate opposite sex behavior less frequently than girls. (Author/GC)

Synthesizes and elaborates current thinking on gender perspective. Presents basic concepts, questions, and connections at each level of analysis. Uses care in marriage to illustrate perspective. Notes that, rather than ask whether women or men are more caring, gender perspective asks what conditions are necessary for women and men to care.…

Examined toddlers' awareness of own-sex and other-sex gender-typed and non-gender-typed toys, also measuring accuracy at labeling sex. Toddlers participated in sequential touching tasks. Results indicated that toddlers possessed significant awareness of gender-typed categories, particularly own-sex gender-typed ones. Awareness of gender-typed…

Reviews the literature and research on sex differences in children's reading preferences and suggests that social pressure or training may account for observed sex differences in reading choices. (WR)

Presents a theory of mechanisms sustaining and reproducing systems of gender stratification, central amongst which is gender division of labor, within both the family and the wider society. Asserts men create dominant social functions which contribute further to gender stratification. Maintains women then choose that which they would otherwise be…

Studied dependency themes in 113 recently published fictional books for children and adolescents and compared females and males in situations where one character helps or influences another. Females were more likely to receive than to give help, and males were more likely to give than to receive help. (Author/ABB)

The author examines the traditional view that male and female differences justify male dominance and female subservience in the social order, discussses arguments against gender free education, and highlights implications of the traditional view for classroom practice. (MT)

Examined the relationship between androgyny and self-disclosure (willingness to reveal significant aspects of oneself to others). Rejected hypothesis that androgynous males would self-disclose more intimately than sex-typed males. Discusses: (1) compliance with social norms regarding male disclosure to strangers; and (2) flexibility in the…

Examined whether transmission of gender role ideology is more prevalent among parents and children of the same sex than among parents and children of the opposite sex. Findings from a sample of 134 Israeli adolescents and their parents show that intergenerational transmission of gender role ideology is a highly complex process. (SLD)