A Study on The Relationship Between Cultural Capital And Female Teacher's Attitudes towards Gender Discrimination

This research tries to find the relationship between cultural capital and female teacher's attitudes towards gender discrimination. In this study, 600 female teachers from different zones of Shiraz were studied through a survey. Bourdieu’s theory considers gender discrimination in relation to different kinds of capitals among them cultural capital is considered thoroughly in this research. Cultural capital is measured by indexes such as educational level, participation in art-cultural communities, using cultural products, amount of studying, fields of sport, amount of using media, etc.
The research findings indicate that those who own more cultural capitals own more negative attitudes toward gender discrimination. Among the variables studied, marital situation and field of study had some meaningful relations with the dependant variable. In the logistical regression analysis with many variables performed by a step by step advancing technique, six other variables had the chance of intruding in the model, i.e. amount of using media, religiousness, sort of sport, class, field of education and the degree of familiarity with foreign languages. Among these variables, religiousness, class, and familiarity with foreign languages have the capability of predicting the changes of dependant variables directly. In other words, they explain most of the variance in the dependant variable.