Abstract
Abstract This research was carried out between 1985 and 1989 against a background of concern that, in spite of the contemporary education system technically being open equally to both girls and boys, girls were nevertheless being denied full equality of opportunity within it. It set out to investigate the claims of sex stereotyping in schools and subsequent female fear of success by measuring pupils' attitudes towards high academic achievement in girls. The research was carried out in different types of school, mixed or single sex. However, the social and academic background of the schools concerned; the development of pupils' sex-role identities, academic self-concepts and global selfesteem; and their attitudes to (a) high achievers in general and (b) women's rights and roles in contemporary society, were also considered as variables. A total of 1823 pupils took part in all, 409 in the pilot study and the remaining 1414 in the main investigation. In the main study, the research was carried out among pupi...
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