The Role of Women in the Navy: A Study of Attitudes and Scale Development

Abstract

The research represents an attempt to better understand negative and positive attitudes toward expanding the role of women in the Navy. The research includes two phases. In the first phase, reports of discrimination and of stereotyped, prejudicial attitudes were investigated. The relationship between these reports and characteristics such as race, sex, education, and career motivation was analyzed. In the second phase, an attempt was made to differentiate components of attitudes toward expanding the role of Navy women. Such attitudes are expected to be determined both by beliefs as to what roles women can perform and by feelings about what roles women should perform. In addition, in the second phase, the usefulness of several attitude items for measuring these components was assessed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0780410

Entities

People

  • Carol H. Fuller

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Education
  • Electronic Equipment
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Factor Analysis
  • Mechanical Equipment
  • Minority Groups
  • Naval Personnel
  • Personality
  • Prejudice
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Samples
  • Surveys
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Gender and Food Studies
  • Organizational Psychology.