The prevailing virw of intelligence during the 19th and early 20th centuries was that women’s intellect was inferior to men’s (Lewin, 1984a; Shields, 1975a). Lewis Terman who adapted the Binet-Simon test into the Stanford-Binet, did not believe in the intellectual inferiority of women. He himself had no trouble accepting the results of this test, which revealed no average differences between the intelligence of men and women. Indeed, the scores on the early versions of the Stanford-Binet showed that women scored slightly higher than men, but after some of the items that showed differences were eliminated, the average scores for women and girls were equal to those of men and boys (Terman & Merrill, 1937).