TY - JOUR AB - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to report results from an exploratory, empirical research study that describes personal values and attitudes toward women, two themes that strongly impact employment relations and a wide variety of management issues.Design/methodology/approach– Well‐established measures for the major themes for this paper were used in constructing a questionnaire. Data collection instruments were vetted for content, translated and back‐translated, and applied by native researchers, who also contributed local expertise to the paper.Findings– Female respondents across all four countries were more egalitarian in their attitudes towards women in the workforce than were men. Additionally, Colombian respondents had more egalitarian attitudes towards women scores, followed by Brazilians and Argentineans; Mexicans exhibited the least egalitarian attitudes toward women.Originality/value– This is the first empirical study that links two well‐validated constructs (personal values and attitudes toward women) in samples from the largest Latin American countries. VL - 31 IS - 3 SN - 0142-5455 DO - 10.1108/01425450910946442 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/01425450910946442 AU - Olivas‐Luján Miguel R. AU - Inés Monserrat Silvia AU - Ruiz‐Gutierrez Jaime A. AU - Greenwood Regina A. AU - Madero Go´mez Sergio AU - Murphy Edward F. AU - Bastos F. Santos Neusa Maria ED - Douglas Renwick PY - 2009 Y1 - 2009/01/01 TI - Values and attitudes towards women in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico T2 - Employee Relations PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 227 EP - 244 Y2 - 2024/04/27 ER -