Survey data on general satisfaction, organizational commitment, role conflict, and role ambiguity were obtained from 529 male and 21 female patrol officers. Measures used were the short form of the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire, Porter's Organizational Commitment Questionnaire, and 14 items of role conflict and ambiguity as constructed by Rizzo, House, and Lirtzman. Results showed no significant differences in attitudes on measures of organization commitment, job satisfaction, work anxiety, role conflict, and role ambiguity. These results offer further support for the argument that personal and organizational factors are stronger predictors of attitudes in the work place than is gender.

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This paper examines the relationship between gender, occupational stress, well-being and coping among a gender-balanced group of 302 untenured assistant professors. The group perceived high levels of life stress and medium high levels of work stress. As hypothesized, women expressed more life stress but, contrary to expectations, the work stress among women was only slightly higher than among men. There were no gender differences in coping. Thus, in this occupational setting, women handled work stress just as well as their male counterparts.

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