Stockard, Jean2024-07-032024-07-031977-09https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2961944 pages. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association.In recent years a number of authors (e.g. Osmond and Martin, 1975; Steinmann and Fox, 1970) have compared the attitudes of men and women toward the nature of appropriate sex roles. A few studies have also examined the association of traditional and non-traditional attitudes toward the role of women with various family related and demographic variables. However, there have been few systematic attempts to compare the influence of various background and experiential variables on the development of sex role related attitudes of both males and females. Such an analysis is necessary if we are to begin to understand how people develop less stereotyped or more equalitarian attitudes toward the roles of women. Significant social change cannot occur if we only examine the development of women's attitudes, and so, in this paper, we explore influences on the sex role related attitudes of both men and women.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USsex-role attitudesfamily backgroundworking mothernon-traditional sex rolesnon-traditional career choiceArticle