Abstract:

This study is designed to measure media and communication students' attitudes towards gender roles. The attitudes of media and communication faculty students who have a higher prospect of being employed in various parts of the media industry, is thought to be influential in removing the sexist perspectives in the media industry, in providing equality with regard to employment and in transforming the representation system that formed in the framework of stereotypical judgements. In this context, Communication Faculty students' attitudes towards  gender roles are going to be analyzed by using "Gender Roles Attitude Scale", developed by Simge Zeyneloğlu in 2008. With the help of a questionairre that is going to be given to Ege University Communication Faculty first and final year students, perspectives on traditional male/female gender roles towards gender roles are intended to be revealed. Also with the help of demographic questions in the study, relations between student demographies and gender role attitudes are going to be defined.      

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