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This hypothesis is in line with the findings of Modernisation theory argues that increases
cross-cultural research which showed that in urbanisation, education, and women's
sex-role is intimately related to broader involvement in the workforce lead to
cultural and social structures (Maneef, 1990; increasingly similar roles for men and women
Vega, 1990; Katsurada and Sugihara, 1999; and hence a favourable attitude towards
Nisan, 1987; Almaney, 1981). women.
The hypothesis is also consistent with In addition, modernity encourages society
previous studies that have shown that the to reconsider traditional gender roles, family
Arab culture, including the subculture of responsibilities, marriage customs, and
Arabs living in Israel, is a traditional and a women's access to education and labour
collectivistic culture (Bierenbauer, 1992; market participation (Mar'i, 1983).
Mikulincer et al., 1993). Arab culture is also Evidence that Arab culture is submitting to
characterised as a patriarchal culture modernisation is substantiated in a number of
(Barakat, 1985, 1993; Segal et al., 1990; studies. Shadid and Seltzer (1989) conducted
Sharabi, 2002). Patriarchy refers to men's a study among 1,018 Muslim students at
structural control over political, legal, three universities in the West Bank and 1,044
economic, and religious institutions (Glick non-students in the West Bank. They found
and Fiske, 1997). According to Johnson that important decisions were more likely to
(1995), the product of patriarchal traditions be made by men only in families of students
of men's right to control their women can be than in families of non-students (53 per cent
called ``patriarchal terrorism'', which involves versus 35 per cent), and that students were
the systematic use of economic more likely to choose their own future spouse
subordination, threats, and other control than allow their parents to make that decision,
tactics. Recently, The Economist (2001) findings that indicate less traditional roles for
concluded that in the Arab world, including those couples who benefit from more
Egypt, the patriarchal family is the strongest education.
state institution. It is argued that this Al-Aysa (1981) found in her study about
patriarchal culture prevailing in Arab societies the values of marriage among Qataris that
has even affected the way Arab literary critics
modern marriage is more liberal in terms of
read Arab literature produced by women
mate selection and individuality compared
(Mahadin, 2002). It is safe, then, to assume
with traditional arranged marriage. In another
that patriarchal power relations prevailing in
study conducted also in Qatar, Al-Hosayni
Arab societies (Dobash and Dobash, 1992;
and Al-Aysa (1981) found that the Qatari
Haj-Yahia, 2000) will reflect traditional
husbands' and wives' role has changed
values regarding relations between the sexes
because of the proliferation of education and
and attitudes toward women.
work opportunities. The study emphasised
H2. For the two samples under study, the important role played by modernisation
younger generations (students) will factors such as urbanisation, mass
report more liberal attitudes towards communication and education in this change.
women than older generations. In a study examining the effect of
This hypothesis is in line with findings of modernisation on the family structure in
previous research conducted to study the Kuwait, Al-Thakeb (1985) found that
factors influencing expectations towards modernisation plays a significant role in
women. spousal selection and in changing attitudes in
Slevin and Wingrove (1983) investigated general.
the similarities and differences among three Amin (1993) found that the Bahrani family
generations of women in attitudes towards the pattern since the discovery of oil has shifted
female role in contemporary society using the from the extended and traditional family to
abbreviated 25-item AWS. Not surprisingly, the nuclear and modern family.
the younger generation, 103 college Alwraikat and Simadi (2001) in a study to
undergraduates, were more liberal than the examine the relationship between some
older generations. Shalani (1988) found in his socio-demographic factors and modernity in
study in India that age is an important Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, found
factor in changing attitudes from traditional that the two Arab countries are submitting
to modern. to modernity.
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H3. Men in both samples will report more H4. Muslims in both samples will report
traditional attitudes towards women more conservative attitudes towards
than women. working women than non-Muslims.
This hypothesis is consistent with previous This hypothesis is based on the assumption
research which universally showed that men that Egypt is a traditional Arab and Muslim
had less egalitarian attitudes towards women society. In addition, Egyptian culture is
than women (e.g. Diwan and Menezes, 1992) largely affected by Arab culture and Arab
and with previous research which showed that culture relegated the woman's role to that of a
men are less pro-feminist in their attitudes housewife and mother and her place to the
than are women (Misra and Panigrahi, 1996; home, and the Islamic religion, it is argued,
McKinney, 1987). It is also consistent with reinforced and legitimised her inferior status
Haworth et al.'s (1986) findings that women (Metle, 2002).
have more liberal attitudes towards women's Because Islam is the predominant religion
role in society than their male counterparts. in Egypt and in the Arab world, it is important
Several researchers compared the attitudes to consider its teachings concerning attitudes
toward women from a cultural perspective. towards women in Muslim society.
Damji and Lee (1995) examined the gender In a national study of Muslim high school
role identity and perceptions of appropriate mature students, aged 20-22 in Senegal,
gender roles so as to gain a better Vandewiele (1983) explored adolescents'
understanding of Canadian Ismaili Muslim conceptions of women's status in Islam. Of
beliefs. Although the comparison of Muslim the 400 boys and 200 girls surveyed, the vast
men and women is deemed to be complex, majority (79 per cent) viewed women as
the women in this sample tended to resemble inferior to men, while only 13 per cent
other women in demonstrating a more considered men and women equal and 8 per
feminine identity and a more liberal outlook cent said that women were superior to men.
toward gender rules than the men. In another This study corroborates a number of studies
study, Chia et al. (1997, p. 29) concluded made to examine the impact of Islam on
women's status and on attitudes towards
that:
women (e.g. Minces, 1982).
. . . in both Chinese and American societies,
female college students expressed a preference A variety of interpretations of attitudes
for more equal and liberalised attitudes towards towards women emerge from the same
women and sex roles in general. religious texts and tradition (Ed-Din, 1982;
El-Saadawi, 1982; Hjarpe, 1983; Obermeyer,
Parveen's (2001) study aimed to investigate
1992). Marshall (1984, p. 3) argued:
the influence of age and sex attitudes toward
The interpretation of vague Koranic passages
working women and modernity values in and the discovery of obscure hadith have
Bangladesh, a predominantly Muslim historically been used by clergy both to justify
country. A total of 100 males and females female seclusion and to increase male rights.
were selected and interviewed, aged from
From this perspective, the study of Islam's
20-45 years. The influence of sex was
impact on forming attitudes becomes an
observed in the case of attitudes towards
important framework from which to evaluate
working women but not in the case of values.
the attitudes towards women in Islamic
To explore the Kuwaiti women's image
societies, as Islam cannot be separated from
among university students, Khalifa (1997) in
the culture of the people of the Middle East
a study including 280 male and 300 female
(Smith, 1980; Esposito, 1991).
undergraduates found that males scored
significantly higher than females on the
negative aspects of a 90-item stereotypes
scale, while females scored significantly Method
higher than males on the positive aspects of Sample
the scale. Subjects in this study were 217 participants.
Based on the results of the extensive Of these, 111 students from a mid-sized
research reviewed above, it is, then, safe to northern university in Egypt participated in
assume that Egyptian men will report more the study. The other 106 participants were
traditional attitudes towards working women selected randomly among older generations
compared with women. (40-60) and from both Muslim and
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indicates that the data do not produce an the findings from previous research are
identity matrix or differ significantly from presented in Table IV.
identity (George and Mallery, 2000). The Based on the results of the statistical
analysis focusing on the sphericity of the analyses, the MAWWWS appears to be a
distribution (Bartlett's sphericity test) allowed fairly valid and reliable measure of traditional
us to reject the hypothesis according to which gender role attitudes and stereotypes. The
the matrix would be unitary (p < 0.0001). This most notable advantage of the scale is its
result implies that the data are thus length, which is comparatively shorter than
approximately multivariate normal and many other scales of its type. The
acceptable for factor analysis. MAWWWS also exhibits sound psychometric
Using SPSS, an internal consistency
properties unlike some other gender-related
analysis was performed to assess the reliability
instruments (for example, see Yoder and
aspect of the MAWWWS instrument.
McDonald (1997) for a discussion of the
Reliability refers to the instrument's ability to
modern sexism scale), which provides
provide consistent results in repeated uses
evidence of adequate content validity and
(Gatewood and Field, 1990). Coefficient
construct definition. From a conceptual
(Cronbach's) alpha is the basic measure for
reliability (Green et al., 2000). The items in standpoint, the measure also appears to be
each factor were grouped into two scales, and centrally positioned with regard to many
coefficient alpha was calculated for each gender role measures, which improves the
group. The ten-item MAWWWS had an scale's efficacy. Although its conceptual
acceptable coefficient alpha ( = 0.79), and underpinnings allow the MAWWWS to be
both traditional roles preference and used as a global gender role measure, it can
employment skepticism also had acceptable also be employed to assess more specific
reliability scores ( = 0.64 and = 0.71 attitudinal domains, employment skepticism,
respectively). Nunnally (1978) suggested and traditional roles preference.
that, in exploratory research such as this, an
alpha value of 0.6 is sufficient. The alpha Traditional attitudes hypothesis
values found for each scale indicated, The ten items on the MAWWWS scale were
therefore, that each factor is a sufficiently rated using a four-point Likert-type response
reliable measure. Reliability results along with format anchored by 1 (strongly disagree) and
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Table IV Reliability of current study compared with reliability estimates reported in past studies
Reliability estimate
Scale Past study (scale alpha)
Aversion to women who work scale (five items) Valentine and Mosley (1998) 0.82
Valentine and Mosley (1999) 0.81
Attitudes towards women scale (AWS) (15 items) Spence and Helmreich (1972) 0.89
Women as managers scale (WAMS) (21 or 22 items) Rice et al. (1980) 0.86
Peters et al. (1974) 0.91
Terborg et al. (1977) 0.92
Bhatnagar and Swamy (1995) 0.85
Symbolic threat (ten items) Stephan et al. (2000) 0.80
Rosenberg self-esteem scale (ten items) Valentine (1998) 0.87
Abu-Saad (1999) 0.70
Coefficient alpha in current study 0.79
Traditional role preference 0.64
Employment skepticism 0.71
An alternative explanation for the forces of adolescent girls express more liberal views
``development and modernisation'' is the pertaining to women's roles and position in
social diffusion model (Montgomery and society than their male peers (Rapoport et al.,
Casterline, 1996). This model predicts that a 1989).
proportion of individuals who are exposed to These results suggest that, while Arab
new ideas through media, community women are willing to accept more
contacts, or discussions with friends and responsibilities in the occupational,
neighbours will ultimately be persuaded to educational, and social spheres, Arab men are
alter previous behaviour. With regard to not willing to share these responsibilities with
attitudes towards women who work, diffusion them.
models would predict that some individuals
will be motivated to bargain in favour of Religiosity hypothesis
altered behaviour in response to new ideas No significant difference is detected between
absorbed from their social environment Muslims and non-Muslims in Egypt
(Rogers, 1962). regarding their attitudes towards women who
This result shows that there exists some work (p > 0.05). It seems that Muslims and
evidence that attitudes towards women who Christians in Egypt share the same cultural
work in Egypt are, in general, changing heritage. For example, a recent study found
towards a less traditional stance. Actually, it that female circumcision (more widely
was predicted that: referred to in the international literature as
. . . with the passing of time and especially female genital cutting or female genital
through the effects of equal education, it is likely
mutilation) is widespread in Egypt among
that tradition will have diminishing weight
against the forces of modernisation (Al-Dhafiri, both Muslims and Christians despite the
1987, p. 27). claim that it is sanctioned by Islam (El-Gibaly
et al., 2002).
Generation gap hypothesis Hence, we should distinguish between
Using the t-test procedure, it was found that Islam, Islamic tradition and culture. The
the mean scores for students and older purpose of this distinction is not to ease the
generations are almost identical. Hence, H2 confusion in the conceptualisation of Islam's
cannot be accepted, as no generation gap was view towards women, but rather to facilitate
detected (p > 0.05). the understanding between patriarchy and
This result partially contradicts Abdalla's, Islam.
(1996) study which shows that, while a Scholars claim that Muslims range from
generation gap was detected between the those who believe that Islam, as it is practiced
AWS scores of mothers and their daughters, today, is just and fair to women, to those who
no generation gap was found between the believe that Islam, as it is practiced today, is
AWS scores of fathers and sons. patriarchal and contrary to its original
Although it was hypothesised that college teachings regarding gender issues. There is
students will have much more liberal views little question, however, over the general
towards women who work in Egypt through acceptance of Mohammed's teachings by
their encounter with non-traditional attitudes either Muslim men or women. The general
during their college years compared with assumption for most Muslim women is that
older generations, it seems that the perceived gender equality is inherent in the Qur'aÅn;
failure of development in Egypt and the therefore, inequality problems for them only
rejection of westernisation has led to emerge when there is ``malpractice, or
resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism misunderstanding, of the sacred text''.
promoting conservative values especially
among the youth.
Implications
Gender differences hypothesis
T-test shows that Egyptian females have more Research implications
favourable attitudes towards women who This research contributes to the literature on
work compared with their male counterparts, cross-cultural studies of gender by
which supports H3 (p < 0.05). These findings systematically assessing the attitudes towards
corroborate earlier studies that show the Arab working women in Egypt.
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Perhaps the findings of this research will recall of stereotypical information. In other
lend increased confidence to researchers who words, those who are considered gender-
have been using the MAWWWS with typed and gender-schematic tend to organise
reservations, or who may have avoided the their sense of self around socially prescribed
instrument because of concerns about sex-role characteristics and other socially
validity. designated behaviours that differentiate men
and women and that are implicitly and
Policy implications uncritically accepted (Bem, 1983). The
There is much misconception about the role existing sex roles exert real pressures on
of women and attitudes towards working individuals to behave in prescribed ways
women in Egypt. The main misconception is (Broverman et al., 1972). Hence, policy
that Arab women are not supposed to publicly makers should increase the role of local media
participate in the political and administrative in Arab communities to urge women to
processes. Usually, this argument is presented involve themselves in economic life and to
on Islamic grounds and is based on the form favourable attitudes towards working
assumption that Islam, as a religion, restricts women in Egypt.
and limits the role of women in public affairs Women's movement organisations might
(Al-Lail, 1996). Educated and skilled Arab also play a role in enhancing favourable
women are thus relegated to positions which attitudes towards women in Egyptian society.
are assumed to be of a non-political nature Hence, policy makers should aim to create
such as teaching, nursing, and lesser conditions to enhance the position of these
administrative jobs. As a result, there is a organisations. That can be accomplished by
tendency to under-utilise human resources in following a comprehensive method aiming at
national development. deepening women's consciousness of their
In order to compete in the highly political and legal rights.
competitive global economy of the twenty-
first century, Egyptian organisations cannot
afford to forgo a major managerial talent pool Future research
represented by women. Organisations with
policies that hinder selection and promotion The results of the present study should be
of women in management will greatly reduce viewed with caution because of the limited
utilisation of valuable personnel. generalisability of studies involving college
Preconceived gender stereotyping would be student participants. It is possible that gender
detrimental to organisations that underutilise role perceptions are more conservative (and
this readily available pool of women traditional) in the South than in other areas of
managerial talent. To grow and prosper, the country; the MAWWWS may be less valid
Egyptian organisations need the active in some regions than in others. This should be
involvement of all employees, both men and kept in mind when viewing the results of the
women. present study, and may be a direction for
Understanding and building favourable future research.
attitudes towards women may also help The present results suggest that the need
multinational firms implement strategic for validation of the MAWWWS should not
human resource management policies and end with this study, but should continue to be
systems that prevent the underutilisation of investigated as the gender role perceptions in
their talent in Egypt. Egyptian society change over the coming
Another set of policy implications deals years.
with the reason behind stereotyping and Several different forms of validity can serve
forming attitudes towards working women in as criteria for assessing the psychometric
Egypt. From the social psychologist's point of soundness of a scale (Grapentine, 1995). In
view, stereotyping has often been regarded as this research we performed only one form:
a type of schema involved in processing media convergent-validity analysis. This form of
information and in organising memory validity pertains to the extent to which scale
(Martin and Halverson, 1981). Renn and items assumed to represent a construct do in
Calvert (1993) interpreted gender stereotypes fact ``converge'' on the same construct.
using an information-processing model and Future researchers using the MAWWWS may
suggested that a gender schema enhanced test the scale's discriminate validity or
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