... boss. These responses were discussed with reference to William and Best (1982) study on gender stereotypes across cultures. Introduction Gender has been carefully differentiated from the concept of sex in many introductory textbooks in psychology. Sex is usually defined as biological aspects of femaleness or maleness, while gender is defined as acquired behavioural and psychological aspects of being a woman or a man (Ashmore, 1990). William and Best (1982) sampled a total of 3,000 people from thirty countries representing both Western nations ( France, Germany, Norway, Holland, Italy, U.S.A. ) and non-Western nations ( Malaysia, Nigeria, Peru ). The used the Adjective Check list (ACL) listing 300 adjective to study the respondents opinions on gender stereotypes. The respondents were asked to decide whether each adjective is more descriptive of a male or a female. If more than two thirds of the culture agreed on an adjective as fitting male or female, this was ...

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