What do people think male and female politicians are stereotypically like? This study tests whether ‘regular’ gender stereotypes are applied in our thinking about political actors, or whether we rely on different, more specific gender stereotypes for political actors. Regular, everyday gender stereotypes might be detrimental to women’s political opportunities, as they link women to non-agentic traits. This study examines gendered political stereotypes in three ways: 1) asking respondents to list the traits they believe are widely associated with a specific social group; 2) asking which traits they themselves associate with a particular group; and 3) asking the same as 2 but in an innovative application of a list-experiment which allows respondents to mask socially undesirable answers. Thus, this article contributes both to our understanding of gender stereotypes in politics, and to list-experiment methodology.