The goal of sex equity in education is to provide unrestricted opportunities for all students. As a result of upbringing, most people have a different set of expectations, behavior standards, rewards, and punishments for females and males. This way of responding differently to each sex is called bias. Sex bias leads to sex discrimination, which has widespread effects on all persons. The three areas of bias most related to curriculum are textbook bias, language bias, and behavioral bias. Sex stereotypes are widespread in all these areas. Stereotyping denies the diversity, complexity, and variation that exists in any group of individuals. Even teachers with a strong orientation toward equity can act on stereotypes. The three steps necessary to eliminate sex stereotyping are awareness, understanding, and action. Teachers should evaluate their classroom environment to check for bias, include students in these activities, and take steps to make the classroom sex-fair. Students should be encouraged to take classes that are nontraditional for their sex, and other students must not be allowed to make fun of them. Two major pieces of legislation form the basis for sex equity in vocational education: Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Title II of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. Because they are shaping the lives of students, vocational educators have a responsibility to be as sex-fair as possible. (KC)