The considerable body of past research on attitudes towards gender usually singled out some particular element: beliefs about psychological sex differences, or ideals of femininity and masculinity, and, most extensively, attitudes towards sex roles in various institutional sectors. By contrast, the theoretical focus of this research is on interrelationships and, conversely, disjunctions among beliefs, ideals, and sex-role attitudes exemplified by a random sample of freshmen, entering a women's college in September 1979.