S ummary . A range of attitude, achievement and sex stereotyping tests were administered to 11‐year‐old children in their first term at comprehensive school. The boys were found to be markedly more sex‐stereotyped than the girls. Able girls and those from middle class homes were slightly less sex‐stereotyped than others. For both sexes a feminine self‐image was weakly linked to low academic achievement, and a masculine self‐image to high achievement. Children who endorsed sex stereotypes showed less interest than other children in learning about the areas of science traditionally associated with the opposite sex.
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Kelly et al. (1986) studied this question.