Sex roles and schooling or "see Janet suffer, see John suffer too"

This article documents the rapid growth in research on sex roles in schools, outlines some of its shortcomings and offers some guidelines for improving it. Central to the article is a conviction that too much gender stereotyping goes on in schools and that it harms both sexes. Topics covered include inequalities of teacher-pupil contacts, sex education and the relations between sex roles and subject choice in secondary schools.