Changing attitudes to gender roles in Britain

The proposed paper will examine changing atitudes to gender roles in Britain between 1991 and 2007. It will
present the results of multivariate modelling of the factors that determine whether or not respondents have
’traditionalistic’ or ’egalitarian’ views towards gender roles using data from the British Household Panel Study.
The proposed paper will explore two different responses to questions concerning atitudes to gender. The first
is ’a husband’s job is to earn money; a wife’s job is to look atier the home and family’. The second is ’children
need a father to be as closely involved in their upbringing as the mother’.