Sex Roles
Volume 51, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 293-300

Measuring perceptions of gender roles: The IAWS for Pakistanis and U.S. immigrant populations (Review)

Khalid R. , Frieze I.H.*
  • a University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
  • b Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States

Abstract

A new scale called the Islamic Attitudes Toward Women Scale (IAWS) was developed and administered to a sample of 195 Pakistani adults and to a sample of 140 Muslim immigrants in the United States. In support of the construct validation of the scale, it was found to significantly differentiate between liberal and conservative Muslims in Pakistan, and in both samples, men held more conservative attitudes than women. For both women and men, more liberal scores on the IAWS were correlated with less accepting beliefs about marital violence toward women. In the U.S. immigrant sample, those who had been in the United States longer had less conservative attitudes. © 2004 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.

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Islam Muslims Gender attitudes

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-18244408823&doi=10.1023%2fB%3aSERS.0000046613.99273.22&partnerID=40&md5=259f7cf773130a3f103902a8037d97bd
DOI: 10.1023/B:SERS.0000046613.99273.22
ISSN: 03600025
Cited by: 12
Original Language: English