Descriptions from men and women subjects of sex stereotypes using the Adjectives Check List and the favorability of stereotypical adjectives were investigated. Results showed highly similar stereotypes for both men and women subjects and no differences in overall favorability in male and female stereotypes. (Author/JKS)

Reports the results of a 1988 replication of a sex stereotype study done in 1972. There were minor qualitative changes such as the perception of women as more and men as less reality-oriented, but there was no evidence that the two stereotypes had become significantly less differentiated. (CJS)

University students rated the Adjective Checklist Items for "strength" and "activity." The principle qualitative differences lay in the connotations of activity and passivity associated, respectively, with the male and female stereotype traits. Any assertion of greater social desirability for the male stereotype was based on…

Undergraduates rated adjectives for appropriateness to men and women. The feminists rated fewer traits as characteristic only of men or only of women and more traits as characteristic of both, than did nonfeminists. Both feminists and nonfeminists evaluated more traits as either neutral or slightly positive. (Author)

A study showed personality traits of both female and male educational administrators in a southwestern urban public school system to be inconsistent with the standards of stereotypical sex-appropriate roles found in earlier studies. Based theoretically on Holland's vocational choice theory, the study surveyed all 64 female administrators at the…