Sex and ethnic group effects on attitudes toward women

Two popular measures of attitudes toward women, the short version by Spence, Helmreich, and Stapp of the Attitudes Toward Women Scale (AWS) and the Smith, Ferree, and Miller Feminism (FEM) were administered to 208 women and 106 men who identified themselves as Caucasian, American of Japanese ancestry, Chinese, Hawaiian and part Hawaiian, and other. The two scales correlated highly with each other. The sex and ethnic identity main effects were statistically significant on both scales, and the AWS yielded a significant Sex by Ethnic Identity interaction, while the FEM did not.