Religious tendency and gender roles: Predictors of the attitudes toward women's work roles?

Our aim in this study was to investigate if religious tendency and gender roles predicted attitudes of Turkish university students towards women’s work roles. The study was conducted with 138 students from the Ankara University Educational Sciences Department. The Attitude Towards Women’s Work Roles Scale (Kuzgun & Sevin, 2004), Religious Tendency Scale (Onay, 1997, 2002), and Bem Sex-Role Inventory (Bem, 1981) were the tools employed in order to collect data. The findings revealed that the thought dimension of religious tendency, and feminine and androgynous gender roles significantly predicted attitudes towards women’s work roles.