Literature pertinent to sex discrimination in educational and vocational counseling is reviewed. Among factors contributing to inequitable counseling are sex role socialization that clients bring to counseling, sex role attitudes and biases of counselors, deficiencies in counselor training, and shortcomings of tests used in counseling practice.…

Summarizes recent literature on sex bias in counseling and challenges counselor educators to increase emphasis on their training programs on sex equity. There is a growing awareness of and commitment to the belief that nonsexist counseling is necessary for optimal growth of clients and for continued development of effective counselors. (Author/BEF)

Some blatant forms of sex discrimination in education have been recognized and addressed in the last decade or so. However, judging both by graduate level counseling textbooks commonly in use and by counselor-educator and counselor-trainee behaviors commonly in practice, enlightenment about the potentially debilitating effects of language is still…