Analysis of the sex-role ideology of 1,258 self-identified psychotherapists from nine occupations indicated that: a) the sample was representative; b) as a group, self-identified psychotherapists were moderately feminist; c) there were significant differences among occupations; and d) results were not due solely to the effects of age or sex distributions among occupations.
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