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Peer reviewedHarris, Mary B. – Australian Journal of Education, 1986
A study of the sex role stereotypes held by 538 first-term Australian university students from single-sex and coeducational high schools is presented. Results suggest that coeducational schooling may have some advantages for fostering interactions with the opposite sex. (MSE)
Descriptors: Coeducation, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Peer reviewedMensinger, Janell – Gender and Education, 2001
Examined the hypothesis that adolescent girls attending single-sex schools would exhibit greater body dissatisfaction and disordered eating than their coeducational counterparts, reanalyzing data from relevant subscales of an eating disorder inventory (drive for thinness, bulimia, and body dissatisfaction) and a figure rating scale from an earlier…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Image, Coeducation, Eating Disorders
Peer reviewedStent, Priscilla; Gillies, Robyn M. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2000
A survey of Year 12 Australian students in coed private (n=105), coed public (n=57), and all-female (n=78) schools revealed a relationship between gender-role identity and traditional/nontraditional career choices; occupations were more gender neutral, but blue- and pink-collar jobs remain stereotyped. Type of school did not influence girls'…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Females, Foreign Countries, High Schools
