In the study of status differentiation, two dimensions of status characteristics have received special attention: the specificity-diffuseness dimension and the relevant-irrelevant dimension. A laboratory experiment manipulates a specific status characteristic, ability for "creative writing." Relevancy of the diffuse status characteristic, sex, is…

Subjects (40 male, 40 female) viewed a videotaped "interview" with a competent female stimulus person (SP) who appeared to be sex-role congruent or incongruent and was either physically attractive or unattractive. Interpersonal attraction (Likability) was assessed by objective questionnaires. Subjects' sex and attitudes toward women were included…

This article presents aspects of professional development, using a narrative case-history approach. It represents the author's own case as an illustration of the kind of integrative experience that may occur as women assume professional careers. In this article, the author weaves the scholarly and theoretical components into the reality of a lived…