Students' attitudes toward issues such as family, marriage, and the relationship between the two sexes can make us more aware of their future plans for life, which is very important in social-cultural policy-making. How do young people consider marriage? What are their desirable criteria for marriage? How have these criteria been biased toward gender equality, or are they still emphasizing different criteria between men and women? What is the student's perspective on gender division of labor? How they consider civil codes on the family, as well as women's employment and social and cultural activities?
Answering these questions can improve our understanding of the distance or agreement between student values and attitudes with formal values and attitudes. Undoubtedly, these attitudes vary among students in terms of gender, social class, ethnicity, city of location, etc. Our effort in this paper is to understand and interpret these differences. In this article, we try to understand the attitude of the students towards family, marriage and gender relations and to understand the changes and resistances in these areas.
We seem to encounter attitudes and claims for equality in some areas and traditional attitudes in other areas. In other words, we see changes in some areas and resistance in other areas. It may be argued that students look at male-female relations with a kind of instrumental wisdom, where they make benefits from the change, they accept it; and they reject it when the change opposes their own interests. It means that we are confronted with changes and concurrent compromises on gender-related issues.
Our method in this research is the secondary analysis, based on the research of the students' attitudes and values in the two periods of 2003 and 2015. We analyze the trends and changes made during this time-frame.