Occupational roles are sex-typed by six- to ten-year-old children

Defferences in children's acceptance of occupational roles which are traditionally sex-typed by society were explored for a sample of 270 elementary school children (90 at each of the age levels of 6, 8, and 10 years). The degree of sex typing was high among all subjects. Children at each age level viewed occupational roles for both men and women similarly to the traditional sex-typed role views.