The hypothesis that the presence of males inhibits the emergence of women as leaders and that this phenomenon is unrelated to differences in dominance, but rather to sex role expectations, was tested. Thirty women attending a woman's college were paired with both male and female peers, whom they did not know, for an experimental task in which one…

Significant changes in attitudes towards women, their vocational and educational roles, and marital relationships were found in two groups of women's college students after exposure to women's studies courses in adolescent psychology and the psychology of women. Both experimental groups indicated more liberal plans for combining marriage and…