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Starring Students: Gender Performance at a Women's College
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Hart, Jeni; Lester, Jaime – NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative study is to better understand how gender is constructed at a women's college. Specifically, the researchers use Judith Butler's (1990) work on performativity to frame how members of the campus community perceive transgender students are integrated into the college. Through semi-structured interviews with faculty,…
Descriptors: Single Sex Colleges, Sexual Identity, Performance, College Students
The Gender Role Perceptions of Male Students at a Prestigious, Single-Gender, Catholic High School
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Thompson, Franklin T.; Austin, William P. – Education, 2010
This study utilized a data set of categorical responses measuring the gender role views of students (N = 701) from a prestigious, Midwestern, all-male, Catholic high school. Incongruence between student self-perceptions and the realities of gender role miseducation and the embracement of sexist ideology were readily apparent. Findings suggest that…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Catholic Schools, Sex Role, Males
Women's Colleges--Weathering a Difficult Era with Success and Stamina.
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Bales, Susan Nall; Sharp, Marcia – Change, 1981
A Ford Foundation data collection project offers tangible proof of the continued viability of women's colleges. Women's colleges have a positive effect on intellectual self-esteem and women are more likely to attain positions of leadership, to become involved in student government, to develop high aspirations, and to persist to graduation. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Role, Educational Benefits, Educational Quality
What Strategy for Women's Colleges?
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Pampusch, Anita – Planning for Higher Education, 1991
A study of 18 women's colleges relatively successful in maintaining enrollment strength suggests that endowment size and market sensitivity are the determinants of success. Well-endowed colleges should plan to maintain large endowments, with some adjustment for changing conditions and educational needs among women. Less-well-endowed colleges must…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Planning, Educational Change, Endowment Funds
Female Freshmen View Their Future: Career Salience and Its Correlates.
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Komarovsky, Mirra – Sex Roles, 1982
The study of career aspirations of freshmen entering a women's college in the fall of 1979 is described. The degree of ideological consistency among career salience, perception of psychological sex differences, attitudes towards sex roles, ideals of femininity and masculinity, etc., are reported. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Aspiration, Background, Career Awareness, College Freshmen
Single-Sex versus Coeducational Environments: A Comparison of Women Students' Experiences at Four Colleges.
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Miller-Bernal, Leslie – American Journal of Education, 1993
Analysis of a panel study of 260 women at 4 colleges (women's college, coordinate of men's college, long-time coeducational college, recently coeducational college) to evaluate why alumnae of women's colleges succeed more than graduates of coeducational colleges. Role models and college activities and their effects on self-esteem are considered.…
Descriptors: Achievement, Coeducation, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis