Gender Roles in Ireland Three Decades of Attitude Change [Paperback]

Gender Roles in Ireland: three decades of attitude changedocuments changing attitudes toward the role of women in Ireland from 1975 to 2005, a key period of social change in this society. The book presents replicated measures from four separate surveys carried out over three decades. These cover a wide range of gender role attitudes as well as key social issues concerning the role of women in Ireland, including equal pay, equal employment opportunity, maternal employment, contraception etc. Attitudes to abortion, divorce and moral issues are also presented and discussed in the context of peoples voting behaviour in national referenda. Taken together, the data available in these studies paint a detailed and complex picture of the evolving role of women in Ireland during a period of rapid social change and key developments in social legislation. The book brings the results up to the present by including new data on current gender role issues from Margret Fine-Davis' latest research.

1. Introduction  1.1. Background  1.2. Changing Gender Role Attitudes: The international context  1.3. Socio-Cultural and Historical Background to Study  1.4 . Overview of Studies  2. Method  2.1. Overview of Studies: 1975  2010  2.2. 1975 Study  2.3. 1978 Study  2.4. 1986 Study  2.5. 2005 Study  2.6. 2010  2.7. Data Analysis Techniques  2.8. Comparisons of Data Sets  3. Dimensions of Attitudes toward the Role and Status of Women  3.1. Factor Structure of Attitudes Toward the Role and Status of Women  3.2. Relationships among Attitudes Toward the Role and Status of Women  3.3. Determinants of Attitudes Toward the Role and Status of Women  3.4. Discussion  4. Social Psychological and Personality Correlates of Attitudes Toward the Role and Status of Women  4.1. Background and LitelSç