ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the data from Social Change in Economic Life Initiative on the general attitudes of women and men towards the position of women both in the workplace and at home. It presents the social patterning of these attitudes. This will give a better grasp of the factors that shape individual 'frameworks' from the social structural level. The chapter holds that attitudes are the evaluative residues of good and bad experiences that act to structure salient beliefs about objects, people or events around the person. It looks at the patterning of men's and women's attitudes toward paid and unpaid work roles. The chapter provides an overview of women's answers to a set of questions that asked women to agree or disagree with specific statements about women and work. It utilizes the results of questions which ask who should be primarily responsible for certain household tasks to look at the relationship between partners' attitudes toward gender roles.
