Authoritarianism strongly predicts endorsement of traditional sex roles.

Evidence

Several studies have found that rightwing authoritarians tend to endorse traditional sex roles. I uncovered RWA Scale correlations of . among 200 female Manitoba students, and . among 135 males, with Spence and Helmreich’s (1978) Attitudes toward Women Scale in 1991. The figures for 265 mothers and 230 fathers were . and .52, respectively. The strongest relationships erupted with “Women should worry less about their rights and more about becoming good wives and mothers” and “A woman should not expect to go to exactly the same places or to have quite the same freedom of action as a man.” — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 465

Categorization

• XREF: The intergenerational persistence (parents rs similar to students) and strongest items reframing women’s rights connect to the vault’s moral-panic/immodesty material in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back.’
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 465