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    Myth and Reality in Sex-Role Discrimination
    (Department of Psychology, University of Peshawar. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, 1998) Asad Bano; Supervised by Prof. Dr Mah Nazir Riaz
    The present study examined the gender differences between personality characteristics of male and female executives through California Psychological Inventory (Gough, 1987) and an indigenous Work Management Scale. The sample consisted of 70 executives (35 male and 35 female) randomly selected from various districts of N.W.F.P. It was found that male executives are significantly better than female executives in their interpersonal relationships, intellectual stance and achievement ability, Whereas female executives have scored higher than male executives on the scales measuring intrapersonal controls, value styles, beliefs and conceptual interests. The differences between personality traits of executives who have joined the profession of their parents and those who have entered into the profession other than their parents was also studied. The findings revealed that the executives who have adopted the profession of their Parents scored higher on the scales measuring Dominance, Sociability, Responsibility, Socialization, Self Control, and Good Impression. Along with these scales the ferfiale executives also showed Significantly better performance than the other group of female executives on Social Presence, Self-Acceptance and Achievement via Conformance scales. On the other hand, the male executives who havejoined the profession other than that of their wards performed significantly better on the Achievement via Conformance, Psychological Mindedness and Social Presence scales of the instrument. Female executives of this group performed better than female executives of other group on Achievement via Indepeterce, Intellectual Efficiency, Psychological Mindedness, Flexibility and Femininity scales. Female executives scored higher than male executives on the Work Management Scale. Job performance of these executives were also evaluated by their subordinates through Purdue Rating Scale (Remmers and Hobson, 1951). The sample consisted of randomly selected 430 subordinates. The investigation revealed insignificant differences among both gender of the executives when they were evaluated by their same sex subordinates, except on Social responsibility scale where female executives are rated higher than male executives by their subordinates.It was also noticed that even the varied educational qualification of the executives rendered no difference in their ratings. By contrast, significant differences are revealed when the evaluations were made by raters of gender other than that of their bosses. Female executives are rated low by their male subordinateson all the three scales of Purdue Rating Scale, which are Social responsibility, Administrative achievement and Democratic orientation than their female colleagues. Whereas male executives are rated higher by their female subordinates on all the three scales of the rating scale thantheir male colleagues.It is concluded from the research Study that societal normsand traditions effect the personality traits of the executives and also create evaluative biases.