Beliefs About Women
Joseph McNair (1998)
Read each statement thoughtfully, and register the strength of your feeling about each item as it pertains to your beliefs. If you don't know what some of the words mean, look them up. Make sure you understand what you are agree or disagreeing with. This survey is for discussion purposes only. Portions of this survey were adapted from Mismeasure of Woman by Carole Tavris, 1992. Copyright © 1996 Joseph D. McNair.
| Name | Ethnicity |
| Gender: Male Female | Nationality |
| Age: 20 and under 20-3030-40 Over 40 | Occupation |
Check the appropriate box for each statement that corresponds to your attitude toward that particular statement.
SA-Strongly Agree, A-Agree, U-Uncertain, D-Disagree, SD-Strongly Disagree
1. A woman's greatest value is as a mother.
SA A U D SD
2. Women, emotionally, tend to be dependent, suggestible, possessive and unstable
SA A U D SD
3. Women tend to be noncompetitive and unassertive.
SA A U D SD
4. Women subordinate their needs to the needs of those they depend on to avoid being self-reliant.
SA A U D SD
5. Flights into romantic fantasy are common in women.
SA A U D SD
6. Women have no sense of humor.
SA A U D SD
7. Women are prone to exaggeration and often play the "victim."
SA A U D SD
8. Women passively allow men to assume responsibility for major areas of their lives because they lack confidence or are unable to function independently.
SA A U D SD
9. Female career paths are too irregular i.e., they usually have too much variety in their work experience.
SA A U D
11. Emotional excitability (irrational, angry outbursts or tantrums) is normal in women.
SA A U D SD
12. Woman is the glory of man, for man is not of woman, but woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman, but woman for the man.
SA A U D SD
13. Most women require their significant others e.g., boyfriends, husbands, lovers, to be physically attractive.
SA A U D SD
14. Women are less likely than men to enjoy sex.
SA A U D SD
15. Women are better able to "read" men and interpret male behavior than men are able to "read" women.
SA A U D SD
16. Women try to control men.
SA A U D SD
17. Women are more likely to be injured by battering than any other form of injury.
SA A U D SD
18. Women in sexual encounters use the word "no" and/or deliberately stop foreplay to make men work harder to satisfy them sexually.
SA A U D SD
19. Women tend to make important decisions based on feelings rather than logic.
SA A U D SD
20. Woman as Eve is the "Devil's gateway; the unsealer of the forbidden tree, the deserter of the divine law."
SA A U D SD
21. It is easier to be a woman than to be a man.
SA A U D SD
22. Women are more concerned with having a happy marriage than men.
SA A U D SD
23. Women have to be seduced in order to enjoy sex.
SA A U D SD
24. Women are more concerned with having well-adjusted children than men.
SA A U D SD
25. Due to the biological differences between men and women, women should be excluded from certain occupations.
SA A U D SD
26. Women are more nurturing than men.
SA A U D SD
27. Women are innately less interested in sex than men.
SA A U D SD
28. Women always mean the opposite of what they say.
SA A U D SD
29. Women perceive reality differently than men.
SA A U D SD
30. The tendency to affiliate and identify with others is natural in women.
SA A U D SD
31. The tendency to value people's feelings is natural in women.
SA A U D SD
32. The tendency to base moral codes on the good of the entire group is natural in women.
SA A U D SD
33. Women are more intuitive than men.
SA A U D SD
34. The tendency to provide emotional support is natural in women.
SA A U D SD
35. Women are so equal now that they no longer need an equal rights amendment.
SA A U D SD
36. Women make moral decisions based on who will be hurt the least.
SA A U D SD
37. A woman's first duty in marriage is to raise her children.
SA A U D SD
38. Women have a need to respond appropriately to the feelings and needs of others.
SA A U D SD
39. Women have a need to establish and maintain close relationships.
SA A U D SD
40. Women have a need to identify and express their own feelings routinely.
SA A U D SD
41. The tendency to value love, communication, beauty and relationships is natural in women.
SA A U D SD
42. Women are more concerned than men with living in harmony, community and cooperation.
SA A U D SD
43. Women are better than men in anticipating the needs of others.
SA A U D SD
44. When women talk about the way they feel, they are not always looking for solutions to their problems, merely an empathetic ear.
SA A U D SD
45. Women do not value their efforts as much as men do, even when they are doing the same work.
SA A U D SD