One of the effects of the recent trend to equalize the sexes has been a greater awareness and effort on the part of women to participate in and become associated with activities formerly engaged in predominantly by males. In the present study, 65 males and 62 females were asked to indicate their knowledge of, interest in, and the degree to which, each of 29 skill-activities were associated with one sex or the other. Seven of the skill-activities were reliably sex-typed as masculine and six were reliably sex-typed as feminine by both males and females. Correlations of interest and knowledge with the sex type of the activities indicated a bias against activities associated with the opposite sex.
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