I've never looked at it this way before, because my sister Christine is a post-doc, and I'm a post-doc, but both of us intend to become professors if we can. Our sister Brenda is already a teacher. Not only that, but our two working-age brothers (the third is still in high school) both work construction. The girls are teachers; the boys are builders. Talk about fulfilling gender stereotypes. I thought I had avoided the pitfall of being limited by my gender when I became a physicist. It may just be that I chose a profession where I could both convince myself I had broken the stereotype while I was fulfilling it.