ABSTRACT
A very considerable research literature undergirds the fact that there are extensive differences among women in such sociologically relevant variables as interests, values, and goals. These differences have to be taken into account when dealing with programs or policies involving women. Among college students, those who fell into the pioneer or career-oriented category tended to show up in all the studies as different from other college women. The explanations of such differences among women also vary according to the researchers' predilections. One team of psychologists is satisfied by a pattern of "needs." Gender refers to the complex of traits that determine whether one checks the M or the F box. It is, to be sure, inextricably related to sex, but "the two realms, sex and gender, are not at all inevitably bound in anything like a one-to-one relationship, but each may go in its quite independent way".
