PERCEPTIONS NOW AND THEN OF OCCUPATIONAL SEX TYPING - A REPLICATION OF SHINAR 1975 STUDY

College students' perceptions of the sex typing of 129 occupations wer e gathered and compared with those reported by Shinar (1975). Question naires were completed by 72 males and 70 females. As in Shinar's study , a continuum of the perceptions of occupations from masculine to femi nine was replicated. A comparison of the mean ratings for the occupati ons and of the percentages of women in each occupation in 1975 and 198 8 is reported in a comprehensive table. The results indicated that occ upational sex typing continues to exist and that women tend to perceiv e jobs as being more neutral than men do. However, the occupational se x typing may not be based on the actual percentages of women in the oc cupations.