Journal
SEX ROLES
Volume 57, Issue 7-8, Pages 607-614Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-007-9271-8
Keywords
ambivalent sexism; housework; gender roles
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The present study aimed to explore sexist attitudes in young people and to investigate the role of these ideologies in the contribution of boys and girls to housework. For this purpose, 139 Spanish high school students (67 females and 72 males) responded to the ASI and AMI scales (Glick and Fiske in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 70:491-512, 1996, Psychology of Women Quarterly 23:519-536, 1999) and assessed their contribution to housework in tasks considered traditionally done by women (highly gender-typed) or more neutral tasks (sex-neutral). Results showed that girls contributed significantly more to housework than boys. In addition, correlation analyses showed that benevolent sexism toward women, men and hostility toward men were significant related to highly gender typed tasks only in the female sample. This result shows the relevance of sexist ideologies in maintaining established differences between genders.
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