Sex Role Stereotyping and the Evaluation of the Performance of Women: Changing Trends

Conditions under which people are prejudiced against women are examined. In two experiments, college students evaluated two professional articles in feminine fields and two in masculine. The author's sex and title were manipulated such that each article was authored in four ways-by a male (Mr.), a female (Miss), a high status male (Dr.) and a high status female (Dr.). It was concluded that prejudice against women may not be as pervasive as demonstrated in previous research but that women in certain "masculine" fields may receive biased evaluations of their work by men if they are thought to be of low professional status.