ABSTRACT
Since Myra Marx Ferree (1974) first noted the increased acceptance of voting for women for president, a steady series of studies has documented rising egalitarianism in gender attitudes and made guarded but optimistic predictions about the future. For example, Karin Brewster and Irene Padavic (2000), using General Social Survey (GSS) data from 1977 to 1996, found that although the pace of change toward liberal gender attitudes had recently slowed, “the liberalization of gender beliefs has not yet run its course” (485). Others have echoed that optimism.
