The Way Men See Themselves

Marriage, partnership and employment of women from the view of the man.
Attitude to supporting women and equal opportunities for men and women.

Topics: number of conversation partners and friends; frequency of
conversations about selected topics of conversation; ideas about
marriage and partnership (scale); attitude to employment or
professional career of men or women in a partnership (scale); sex role
orientation; attitude to feelings and sexuality in a partnership
(scale); living together with a woman and, as appropriate, length of
living together with partner; frequency of doing selected housework
tasks; number of weekdays on which housework tasks are done;
differences in occupation with housework an weekends or weekdays; time
expended for weekly housework; perceived stress from housework;
cleaning help in household; information on changes in sexual relations
in the course of the partnership (scale); attitude to open expression
of feelings to partner (scale); time worked each week and working days
each week; length of daily absence from home due to work; shift work;
job satisfaction (scale); information on working hours and job
satisfaction of partner; attitude and evaluation of employment or
housewive activity of partner (scale); comparison of personal
occupational stress with that of partner (scale); ideas about ideal
division of housework and raising of children in a family; preferred
form of child care with employment of parents; most important tasks of
a father in the family (scale); attitude to a personal existence as
househusband (scale); attitude to marriage or partnership without
marriage (scale); attitude to houses for women; estimated proportion of
women beaten by men; knowledge of men who beat their wives; assumed
reasons and judgement on selected situations as cause for violence
against women; attitude to violence against women (scale); unemployed
in circle of friends and acquaintances; most important problems from
unemployment for a man and in comparison for a woman (scales);
knowledge of women particularly successful in their profession; most
important conditions for professional career of women; sex-specific
assignment of selected occupations; proportion of women at one´s own
place of work; judgement on equal opportunities for men and women at
work; women as superior of respondent; assumed reasons for an imbalance
of men in higher professional positions (scale); attitude to support
for women and the role of women with increased unemployment of men;
attitude to contraception; man or woman as responsible for
contraception; knowledge of selected methods of contraception and
information on one´s own experiences; method of contraception currently
used by partner; reasons for lack of contraception; attitude to
personal sterilization; knowledge about paragraph 218 and attitude to
abortion (scale); personal experience of a situation in which decision
about an abortion was necessary; judgement on the legal regulations on
maternity leave; characterization of one´s own situation in life
(scale); view of men (scale); satisfaction with life up to now (scale).

The following additional questions were posed to men without steady
partner: steady girl friend; interest in marriage; reasons for lack of
interest in a steady partnership (scale).

Demography for both respondent and wife or partner: age (classified);
religious denomination; German citizenship; school education;
vocational training; occupational position; income; household income;
size of household; composition of household; number of children; ages
of children (classified).