These materials are part of a four-module series, "Competence Is for Everyone," designed to specify and reduce limitations on the learning and use of skills that people experience because of their sex or race. The series identifies three areas that function to maintain inequalities: the process of making judgments or appraisals, practices of social institutions in education, employment, and the mass media, and legal precedents and historical antecedents. Appraisal is treated as it occurs with respect to group membership, i.e., sex and minority status. This module, written for students at the intermediate grade-level, examines appraisal with respect to gender through activities focused on: (1) identifying personal and societal expectations based on gender; (2) recognizing sex stereotypes protrayed in textbooks and comic books; (3) assessing the status of employed women; and (4) reviewing recent legal changes and their implications for future gender roles. Additionally, a teacher's guide with instructions and worksheets accompanies this student text. (Author/HLM)