A three-stage model of sex-role development which accounts for the failure of traditional models to explain sex-role socialization and eliminate discrimination is proposed. The model necessitates exploration of multiple interactive processes which influence sex-role development and several different mechanisms of growth. (Author/AM)

This article examines some persistent paradoxes in the definition of the male role, and proposes a distinction between traditional and modern male roles. Four current perspectives on the problem of the male role are distinguished. (Author/AM)