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Sex differences in students' impressions of a university women's center
Author(s) -
Casalina Anita,
Abramowitz Stephen I.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(197804)6:2<147::aid-jcop2290060207>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - psychology , ideology , center (category theory) , perception , social psychology , politics , gender studies , demography , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , sociology , political science , chemistry , neuroscience , law , crystallography
Twenty‐eight female and 28 male college students responded to a survey questionnaire that tapped various kinds of knowledge and sentiments about women's centers. Regardless of sex, subjects held similar perceptions about the political orientation of women's centers. However, male respondents were relatively less accepting of that ideology as it applied to men as well as women and more inclined to minimize the potential impact of women's centers. The women's rights movement may need to concentrate more effort than it has on dispelling male stereotypes of liberated women.