Sex and Student Role Stereotypes in Australian University Students

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Abstract
Students from Macquarie University and University of New South Wales filled out semantic differential scales to indicate the qualities they believed the ‘excellent’ university student and a member of their own or the other sex should possess. Male and female students in the Macquarie sample agreed closely in their conception of the ‘excellent student’. Female ratings for the female role however differed more from their ratings of the ‘excellent student’ role, than did male ratings of male sex role and ‘excellent student’ role. In the New South Wales sample, male students rated the female role as more discrepant from the ‘excellent student’ role than the male role.