Gender identity, sex typing of occupations, and gender role ideology among adolescents: Are they related?

The study examined the impact of gender identity on gender role ideology and occupational sex typing among 166 Israeli adolescents. The findings indicate that gender identity affects occupational sex-typing. Specifically, androgynous respondents provided more liberal evaluations of feminine-typed occupations than did the undifferentiated group. Regarding gender role ideology, gender identity was only found to have an impact among the male respondents. Specifically, sex-typed and undifferentiated males expressed more traditional evaluations of feminine-typed roles than did the androgynous and cross-sex-typed respondents. In addition, an effect was found for gender regardless of gender identity, i.e., the females expressed less sex-typed evaluations of occupations and less traditional perspectives of gender roles than did the males.