Attitudes Toward Women Executives: A Longitudinal Approach

Abstract

The article presents a longitudinal study which measured the positive and negative attitudes toward women executives in the U.S. for the 1975 to 1983 period. The Managerial Attitudes toward Women Executives scale was employed in the study. The scale was administered to master of business administration (MBA) students at graduate schools of business located in New York City and Williamsburg, Virginia. It has found that the male MBA students held more negative attitudes toward women executives than did the female MBA students.