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Gill, Wanda E. – 1987
The term gender bias was coined by the National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts and is defined as the predisposition or tendency to think about and behave toward people primarily on the basis of their sex rather than their status, professional accomplishments, or aspirations. An effective method for…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Court Judges, Courts, Displaced Homemakers

Muir, Grant; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1996
Presents the results of a study that surveyed a number of U.S. and Scottish undergraduates on the relative acceptance of myths involving sexual assaults. Results suggest that a lower incidence of sexual assaults corresponds to a diminished belief in myths involving rape. Includes statistical analysis of variance. (MJP)
Descriptors: College Students, Crime, Cross Cultural Studies, Females