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Ganson, Kyle T.; Gould, Paul; Holcomb, Rachael – Journal of Social Work Education, 2022
Male social workers make up a small portion of the profession's workforce and little is known about the experiences of male students during social work education. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of male MSW students in the social work learning environment. Using a transcendental phenomenological approach, 22 individual…
Descriptors: Males, Caseworkers, Social Work, Student Experience
Payette, Sandra D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Where are the women in computing? This dissertation explores the underrepresentation of women in computing as a cultural issue. After considering the role of women in the history of computing, it examines contemporary interventions to address gender bias and promote gender diversity in the tech sector and Silicon Valley. Not for profit…
Descriptors: Females, Disproportionate Representation, Discourse Analysis, Computer Science
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Luna, Diego – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper summarizes a qualitative study conducted to better understand the experiences of men of color in peer-to-peer anti-violence college organizations. Male privilege benefits all men, yet this privilege is mitigated and/or augmented by sociopolitical factors that whitestream curriculums rarely take into account. How then, do men of color…
Descriptors: Males, Minority Groups, Peer Groups, Social Support Groups
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Sueyoshi, Amy – History Teacher, 2013
While whiteness studies at most institutions aims to expose the persistence of white supremacy to a disbelieving audience, whiteness studies within the College of Ethnic Studies (COES) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) begins with the assumption that racism still exists. The course then traces how whiteness is constructed and fortified to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Whites, Power Structure, Racial Bias
Corbett, Christianne; Hill, Catherine – American Association of University Women, 2015
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…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Success, Disproportionate Representation
Corbett, Christianne; Hill, Catherine – American Association of University Women, 2015
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…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Success, Disproportionate Representation