Attitudes of Tennessee College Students toward Women

Abstract

This study examined the associations of college students' attitudes toward women (feminism) and measures of “traditional family ideology,” “authoritarian attitudes,” and “religious fundamentalism” attitudes and beliefs. Data were collected from 377 college students selected with a stratified multistage sampling process from a rural university campus in middle Tennessee. Analyses of variance indicated a marked difference among the male and female students' feminism scores. In addition, students' age, religion, and their mothers' religion and education as well as the “traditional family ideology” and “authoritarian attitudes” scores were strongly related to students' attitudes toward women.