A total of 240 male and female elementary school children, college students, and adults were asked to rank the values, using the Rokeach Value Scale, they believed existed for males and females in our society. Few differences in sex stereotyping of values were found as a function of age and sex and, more impressively, the absolute level of stereotyping in all conditions was very low.
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