Using M. Foucault's interpretation of discourse, identifies and examines two dominant discourses from New Zealand kindergarten teachers within the texts from the 1992 National Kindergarten Teachers' Collective Employment Contract Negotiations. Each discourse reveals teachers in a powerless position for negotiating wages and working conditions, but…

Interviewed Canadian female educational administrators to examine their perceptions of gender relations within the context of provincial policy. The author reveals their experiences of contradiction with respect to the policy in practice and identifies ways in which these women construct themselves as agents of resistance and change. (GR)

Uses career history data from 15 women in professional engineering careers to examine some educational concomitants of nontraditional career choices. The focus, from an interactionist theoretical perspective, is on how women actually experienced becoming an engineer. The educational influences identified are those perceived by women themselves to…

Examines the connection between an English-in-the-workplace (EWP) class and the linguistic behavior of immigrant women garment factory employees. Results suggest that newly acquired English skills may be reinforcing linguistic behavior that reconstitutes traditional relations between workers and management. However, EWP does not appear to empower…

Presents a case study of a boys' school from the perspective of how the women teachers experienced this environment, and examines the changes in the school and the resulting micropolitical conflict over gender. Two ideal type groupings of women teachers emerged, with differing interpretations of their situation, what they believed a feminized…