Measuring Sex Stereotypes: A Thirty Nation Study (Volume 6, Cross Cultural Research and Methodology)

A study of gender roles in thirty countries from Peru to Malaysia, which tests the perceptions of both children and adults. The authors uncover an array of ideas about gender and sex roles that are almost universally held across the cultures studied. Does this mean that sex stereotypes have an empirical basis in something other than cultural conditioning? This and many other questions and the implications for individual people and whole societies are considered. The meticulous methodology used in the study is described in detail, and should be of interest to people doing similar research. `The most extensive review currently available of sex stereotypes in cross-cultural perspective.′ -- Choice, July/August 1983