Abstract
An experience was designed to provide undergraduate students enrolled in a Sociology of the Family course an encounter with sex discrimination. During the course, reasons for the differential occupational and educational achievement of men and women were discussed in terms of sex role socialization, constraints of normatively prescribed sex roles and discrimination in employment. In the past, students had been skeptical about the continued presence of discrimination against women, particularly with Equal Employment Opportunities Commission activities, employer fear of prosecution, and publicity given to affirmative action in large industries, government bureaucracies and universities. This experiment was devised to test the extent of sex discrimination in a progressive metropolitan area, to provide material for discussion, and to give students a taste for sociological research. A set of jobs was obtained from classified advertisements in two major metropolitan newspapers and categorized into those
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