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Gender Role Egalitarian Attitudes Among Chinese College Students

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This study was designed to examine the relationships between gender role egalitarian attitudes and gender, age, parents’ education and occupations, anticipated age of marriage and child bearing, desired family size, career choices, and preference for sex of the children among 470 Chinese college students. Statistically significant relationships were observed between gender role egalitarian attitudes and gender, age, and anticipated age of marriage and childbearing. There were no relationships between gender role egalitarian attitudes and preference for sex of the children, desired family size, parents’ education and occupation, and Chinese students’ career choices.

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Acknowledgment

I would like to thank Professors Zhijin Hou and Haiping Chen for their assistance with the classification. Special thanks go to Professor Baoling Wu for her assistance with collection of the data and the classification. Portion of the present study was presented at the 109th Annual Convention of American Psychological Association in San Francisco, CA, on August 25th, 2001.

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Zhang, N. Gender Role Egalitarian Attitudes Among Chinese College Students. Sex Roles 55, 545–553 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-006-9108-x

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