All good stories should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. The related pair of articles that earned the author a place in this Special Section, "Masculine Instrumentality and Feminine Expressiveness: Their Relationships with Sex Role Attitudes and Behaviors" (Spence & Helmreich, 1980) and "Instrumental and Expressive Traits, Trait Stereotypes, and Sexist Attitudes: What Do They Signify?" (Spence & Buckner, 2000), represent the middle and the end of a story. In this article, the author presents its beginnings by explaining how it came to be. First she provides a necessary preface about other changes, both societal and personal, that is, how it used to be. The original articles can be found at pwq.sagepub.com/content/5/2/147 and pwq.sagepub.com/content/24/1/44.