A variety of tasks assessed the degree of relatedness among (1) the age at which a child correctly labeled gender categories, (2) the degree to which the child found gender a salient parameter for categorization, (3) the degree to which the child reported gender-stereotypic preferences, (4) the amount of gender-related knowledge the child displayed, and (5) the accuracy of the child’s memory for gender related information. A total of 108 children (aged 18 mo to 4 yrs) participated. There was only one significant correlation: Ss who found gender to be a salient means of categorization were also those Ss who displayed more gender-related knowledge. Findings refute the conceptualization of sex role as a coherent univariate factor of cognitive development as implied in S. L. Bem’s (1981, 1983) gender schema theory. Gender appears to be a multivariate developmental construct.