SEX-ROLE STEREOTYPES, SELF-CONCEPTS, AND MEASURED PERSONALITY-CHARACTERISTICS IN COLLEGE-WOMEN AND MEN

Female and male college students were asked to rank 15 descriptions of manifest needs in the order that they thought best characterized either the average female and the average male, the ideal female and the ideal male, or themselves. Subjects who described themselves also completed an objective measure of the needs. Extensive similarity was found between the responses of female and male subjects. Subjects perceived numerous differences between the average female and the average male, but very few differences between the ideal female and ideal male. The self-concepts of female and male subjects were highly similar. Objective measurement revealed very few significant differences between females and males. © 1979 Plenum Publlshing Corporation.