Abstract

In this study, we intended to understand the factor structure of the items about gender stereotypes-what we called 'complex'. We intended to understand the discrepancy between the gender difference based on factor structure and the response to oneself, and to grasp the relevance to gender-egalitarianism in this study. For the purpose, we have examined 361 male and 190 female students on gender egalitarianism scale and the items written or conceptualized on 'The male's 7 complex' and 'The female's 7 complex' through two times testings. We have extracted 7 factors from males and females each, but this result differs from existing 7 complex in structure. In males' factors from that testing, males appear to be more conservative than females in gender difference, and to be more and more conservative to themselves. But in the consciousness of comparison with female, they seem to be more open-minded to themselves. In females' factors, most females appear to be more open-minded than males, but they are inconsistent in the response to themselves. Excluding the dependence of males upon their wives and the consciousness of comparison with females, each factor has a great relevance to gender-egalitarianism.