1. The Effects of Co-Education on Levels of Benevolent Sexism in College-Age Males Sarah Kemp & Ruth Hudgens Hanover College

2. Introduction Differences in levels of Sexism between single- sex and co-educational high schools (Lee, Marks, & Byrd, 1994) Contact Hypothesis (Stephan, 1985) 1. Equal Status 2. Personal Interaction 3. Achieve Goals through Cooperative Activities 4. Social Norms & Relevant Authorities

3. Intro cont…. Sex Role Attitudes: Egalitarian vs. Traditional (Vanyperen & Buunk, 1991) Benevolent Sexism – Encompasses subjectively positive (for the sexist) attitudes toward women in traditional roles (Glick & Fiske, 1997)

4. Hypotheses Male subjects who attended co-educational high schools will display lower levels of benevolent sexism than those who attended single-sex high schools. Male subjects who have more traditional sex role attitudes will display higher levels of benevolent sexism than males who have more egalitarian sex role attitudes.

5. Method Participants: students at a small liberal arts college in the Midwest *91 subjects: 58 females & 33 males Subjects were recruited either individually or through Resident Assistants according to living unit

6. Method-Materials Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: 22-item Likert scale (0=strongly disagree/5=strongly agree) *Ex: “Women should be cherished and protected by men.” (Glick & Fiske, 1997) Sex Role Attitudes Scale: 40-item Likert scale *Ex: “A Woman who pursues a career cannot be a good mother” Demographics

7. Procedure Participant selection Consent form Survey – 15 minutes Debriefing and contact information

8. Results Men from single-sex high schools did not show significantly higher levels of benevolent sexism than men from co-ed high schools (One-Way ANOVA= n.s.) No correlation between men’s benevolent sexism and sex role attitude

9. Results/ Discussion Range of Benevolent Sexism was from 14 to 44: Women’s M=26.62, Men’s M=27.58 Men were more egalitarian (M=100.06) than women (M=94.24), with a range of 75 to 150

10. Discussion Small Sample Size – not enough power Homogeneity of small college Conditions of contact hypothesis were not met by the high school Sex role attitudes of campus women may not be egalitarian enough. May have been obvious what our scale was measuring.

11. Future Research Larger, more diverse sample Co-residential living units- more interaction with women Questions concerning conditions of h.s.- contact hypothesis