Visual and verbal creativity (E. Torrance and S. Mednik's tests) was studied in students of different specialities (mathematics, biology, engineering, social work) with the help of specially designed computer techniques. The subjects were 206 men and 246 women. Men displayed superiority in visual creativity though women may show similar achievement if they choose "manly" professions. A necessary condition of such leveling of sex differences in visual creativity is a high level of intellectual development in a woman. There are no reliable differences between men and women in verbal creativity (on the association test), though men tend to perform better on originality of verbal association; in groups of engineers and biologists the difference becomes reliable. Thus it can be expected that changes in sex role stereotypes (for instance, socially conditioned professional orientation) can compensate for biologically conditioned differences between the sexes in cognitive (including creative) abilities.