Is traditional gender ideology associated with sex-typed mate preferences? A test in nine nations

Social role theory (Eagly, Wood, & Diekman, 2000) predicts that traditional gender ideology is associated with preferences for qualities in a mate that reflect a conventional homemaker-provider division of labor. This study assessed traditional gender ideology using Glick & Fiske's (1996, 1999) indexes of ambivalent attitudes toward women & men & related these attitudes to the sex-typed mate preferences of men for younger mates with homemaker skills & of women for older mates with breadwinning potential. Results from a nine-nation sample revealed that, to the extent that participants had a traditional gender ideology, they exhibited greater sex-typing of mate preferences. These relations were generally stable across the nine nations. Tables, Figures, References. Adapted from the source document.