The Weinberg-Salam model is embedded in SU(2/1), thereby considerably reducing the arbitrariness in SU(2) and U(1) assignments for leptons and quarks. The grading of the matter fields corresponds to their chirality. The action of the odd generators of a superalgebra usually involves a change in the statistics of the states, in the representation carrier-space. We explain the interplay between chiralities and statistics.