This paper reports two studies both concerned with sex differences in job satisfaction. It was argued that the highly equivocal literature in this area was methodologically weak in terms of sampling, instrumentation, confounding variables etc. and caught-in-time. In the first of two studies lay beliefs about the causes of job satisfaction were investigated in a heterogeneous population. Although some factors-age, belief in the Protestant Work Ethic-related to some job satisfaction factors there was no evidence of any sex differences. In the second study working men and women completed the Bem androgyny scale and a multi factorial job satisfaction scale. Neither sex nor sex-role related yielded many significant differences in job satisfaction even when a wide range of possibly confounding variables were partialled out. The results are discussed in terms of methodological problems of previous studies in the area, as well as specific changes in women's working habits.