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Male Sympathy with the Situation of Women: Does Personal Experience Make a Difference?
Author(s) -
Crosby Faye,
Herek Gregory M.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1986.tb00224.x
Subject(s) - prestige , sympathy , feeling , psychology , occupational prestige , social psychology , demography , sociology , population , socioeconomic status , philosophy , linguistics
Opinions and feelings about the situation of working women were assessed among a sample of men in high‐prestige and low‐prestige occupations interviewed in 1979 and 1980. The men varied considerably in how much sympathy they felt with working women. Men in high‐prestige occupations were reliably more aware of and upset about the true extent of sex discrimination than were men in low‐prestige occupations. Men's attitudes were not connected to the employment status of their wives or mothers, or to the experiences of women in their own lives.