Women's Study Courses: Do They Change Attitudes?

Abstract

A list of adjective statements previously shown to be related to sex stereotyping was administered to 127 college students, who were instructed to rate their “ideal male” and “ideal female.” Analysis suggested that students differentiated gender roles according to the usual stereotypes, but that after the completion of one of the courses, a statistics course taught by a woman, the “ideal female” was rated significantly more “male-like.”