Gender stereotypes: Perception or rationalization?

Abstract

It is proposed that gender stereotypes arise to rationalize the distribution of the sexes into social roles. Ss read descriptions of members of two fictional categories, one having 80% «city workers» and 20% «child raisers», the other with the percentages reversed. They late made personality ratings of each category and of the category subgroups occupying each role

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