Abstract
Student respondents in Studies 1 and 2, and nonstudent respondents in Study 3, estimated the percentage of females or males in 10 sex-stereotyped occupations. Mean estimates (social stereotypes) were highly stable over a four-week interval and were correlated highly with criterion percentages from the U.S. Census, but, contrary to the kernel of truth hypothesis, tended consistently to underestimate the objective differences between male and female representation in the stereotyped occupations. For each respondent, perceived sex differences were aggregated across the 10 occupations to form a composite scale of strength of sex-occupation stereotyping and perceived sex differences in personality were similarly aggregated to form a scale of strength of sex-personality stereotyping, both with satisfactory reliability. The correlation of these two scales shows that there is some generality in strength of occupational and personality-trait stereotyping as components of sex-stereotyping. Strength of sex-stereotyping of occupations was not related to attitude toward women in nontraditional occupations or to authoritarian attitude.
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