THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER ROLE ATTITUDES AND DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS TOWARD EQUALITY IN YOUTH

Abstract

Gender roles have significant impacts on one’s professional, social, and family life. By given the importance of gender roles in higher educational institution, the paper aimed to determine the relationship between demographic factors and gender role attitudes among youth at higher educational institutions in Malaysia. The main aim of this study was to measure the relationship between youth gender role attitudes and demographic factors towards equality. The specific objectives of the study are (1) to identify the factors that influence on gender role attitudes and; (2) to analyze the relationship between those factors with the gender equality. Data was collected using a cross-sectional survey and analyzed using descriptive. The findings of the study showed that there is a significant relationship between demographic variables such as ethnicity, region of residence and parental education and gender role attitude among youth towards equality