During the 2014 White House Science Fair, President Barack Obama used a sports metaphor to explain why we must address the shortage of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly in the engineering and computing fields: "Half our team, we're not even putting on the field. We've got to change those…

During the 2014 White House Science Fair, President Barack Obama used a sports metaphor to explain why we must address the shortage of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly in the engineering and computing fields: "Half our team, we're not even putting on the field. We've got to change those…

The purpose of this pilot study was to describe the participation of farm women in farm work in one California country. Women from 228 farms, approximately 55 percent of the farms in Yolo County, California, were interviewed by telephone concerning their efforts and roles on the family farm. The study found that the main criterion of whether or…

Three studies compared the characteristics, preparation, and job satisfaction of male and female vocational agriculture teachers. The first was a national survey of teacher educators and administrators from 64 institutions (of 79 originally contacted) that prepare high school agriculture teachers. The other two studies examined the entire…

California's Statewide Longitudinal Study (SLS) of community college students reveals that student services are needed and appear to be effective. Evidence supporting this contention were obtained from a special run of data from third-year interviews with 4,120 of the original sample of 6,490 students. These data indicate that: (1) the level of…