Changing attitudes of women towards family-related tasks in young adulthood
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Abstract
This study adds to the research on sex-role attitudes by examining the importance women of varying age groups place upon marriage and family-related tasks of young adulthood. Two hundred seventy women, divided into three age groups and three income levels, were asked to evaluate the importance of five family-related developmental tasks, as defined by Robert Havighurst. Results from this cross-sectional study support the conclusion that younger women who are facing decisions about marriage, family, and home consider these tasks significantly less important than do older women. Women between 35 and 59 assigned an intermediate value to these tasks, which, again, differed significantly with the response of the older group in four of the five cases. Interaction effects between age and income levels are examined for two tasks.
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