GAINESVILLE, Fla., Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Men who believe in traditional gender roles earn more money than men who don't, but women who believe in gender roles make less, U.S. researchers said.
Timothy Judge and Beth Livingston of the University of Florida analyzed data from a nationally representative study of more than 12,000 men and women, who were interviewed four times between 1979 and 2005 ages 14 to 22.
At each of the four interviews, participants were asked about their views on gender roles in the work force and at home. They answered questions such as whether they believed a woman's place is in the home, whether employing wives leads to more juvenile delinquency, or if a man should be the achiever outside the home.
The study, published in the the Journal of Applied Psychology, found men who said they had more traditional gender role attitudes made an average of about $8,500 more annually than those who had less traditional attitudes, but women who held more traditional views made an average of $1,500 less annually than the women with more egalitarian views.
" When workers' attitudes become more traditional, women's earnings relative to men suffer greatly," Judge said in a statement. "When attitudes become more egalitarian, the pay gap nearly disappears."
