Using Egalitarian Items to Measure Men’s and Women’s Family Roles

摘要: This study was designed to show that measuring gender ideology by egalitarian items might be problematic, as egalitarianism is not simply the reverse of traditionalism and includes very different stances. Egalitarian are likely lead an insufficient discrimination between traditional non-traditional respondents. While former often ignore stance, latter hold positions which prevents agreement with any specific item. Empirical evidence reported from quantitative qualitative data: international survey based on random samples (n = 5.692) a cognitive study, conducted in Germany both internet 889) telephone 285). Here, selection response category analyzed using probing questions.