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  2. Societal attitudes towards women - Wikipedia

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    This scale consisted of 55 items that gauged attitudes of American undergraduate college students, both male and female, towards gender roles. [ 1 ] Since 1970, both men and women have demonstrated a more liberal attitude, meaning they perceive the role of women as more equal to that of man than they did in 1970.

  3. Ambivalent sexism - Wikipedia

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    Lastly, findings from the Conn, Hanges, Sipe, and Salvaggio (1999) study suggest that other sexism scales may measure ambivalent attitudes towards women. [22] Glick and Fiske originally proposed the theoretical framework of ambivalent sexism as filling a gap in the psychological literature and providing a novel tool for assessing a new ...

  4. Social distance - Wikipedia

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    Bogardus Social Distance Scale and its variations remain the most popular measure of social distance. [5] [6] In questionnaires based on Bogardus' scale, respondents are typically asked members of which groups they would accept in particular relationships. For example, to check whether or not they would accept a member of each group as a ...

  5. Body Attitudes Questionnaire - Wikipedia

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    The BAQ was the first body attitudes scale to be translated into Portuguese. The validity of the Portuguese language version was proven in a test conducted on a cohort of Brazilian women who speak Portuguese as their native language. The test-retest reliability was 0.57 and 0.85 after a one-month interval. The test was conducted by Scagliusi et ...

  6. Measures of gender equality - Wikipedia

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    They do not measure the relative position and status of women in relation to men, but only measure absolute levels of income per capita or human development. Mills (2010) goes as far as to say that "although they are often touted as key measures of gender (in)equality, most experts agree that they are in fact not measures of gender inequality ...

  7. Thurstone scale - Wikipedia

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    In psychology and sociology, the Thurstone scale was the first formal technique to measure an attitude. It was developed by Louis Leon Thurstone in 1928, originally as a means of measuring attitudes towards religion. Today it is used to measure attitudes towards a wide variety of issues.

  8. Gender Empowerment Measure - Wikipedia

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    The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is an index designed to measure gender equality.GEM is the United Nations Development Programme's attempt to measure the extent of gender inequality across the globe's countries, based on estimates of women's relative economic income, participation in high-paying positions with economic power, and access to professional and parliamentary positions.

  9. Women-are-wonderful effect - Wikipedia

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    It revealed that among men who engaged more in sexual activity, the more positive their attitude towards sex, the larger their bias towards women. A greater interest in and liking of sex may promote automatic preference for the out-group of women among men, although both women and men with sexual experience expressed greater liking for the ...