This study questions the widely held assumption, particularly in the United States, that coeducation is best. Previous research supports the development of single-sex education for both female and male students. This study examines how the learning climate of the coeducation environment seems to affect the character development of female business…

Compared mission statements of 23 women's colleges with women's studies programs, 23 women's colleges without women's studies programs, and 21 coeducational colleges with women's studies programs. Found some consistent qualitative differences between mission statements of women's colleges and those of coeducational institutions with women's…

Describes results from 1985 interviews, asking college women how the type of school, coeducational or women's, influenced their choice of study or occupation in the hard sciences or engineering. Argues coeducational schools reinforce discrimination against and disadvantage females. Commends feminists' demands for greater sensitivity in detecting…

This paper explores how students from three different high schools (one all female, one all male changing to coeducation, and one previously all female, and now coeducational) experience school culture, how institutions, through their policies and practices, communicate normative behavior about gender, and how gender is communicated through…

Uses state-level census data from 1900 to examine relationships between the social-structure characteristics and enrollments in three types of institutions of higher education: coeducational colleges and universities, women's colleges, and normal schools. Concluded that enrollments were differentially affected by characteristics of the social…