The purpose of this study is to investigate gender roles in vocational high schools. Hence, this study attempted to determine whether gender distributions in schools are influential in the gender roles of students. The sample included 423 students studying in five different types of high schools (vocational, health, multi-program, girls'…

With the introduction of single-sex classroom settings in coeducational public schools, there is an ongoing debate as to whether single-sex education may reduce or reinforce traditional stereotypes and gender roles. In this article we present findings from a study that investigated the extent to which mathematics is perceived as a gendered domain…

This article examines Saudi female students' socialization process in mixed-gender interactions during their study abroad, focusing on how they negotiate culture-specific gender expectations of women's deference and modesty. Findings reveal that Saudi women's deference to maintaining an ideal image of Saudi womanhood makes shyness and fear of…

This article presents the national gender policy in public education in the Russian Empire in the latter half of the 19th-early 20th centuries. In the course of work the authors have used special historical research methods enabling to hammer out the facts and to approach historical sources from a critical standpoint. The comparative method…

As much as the principle of co-education may appear to make sense in physical education (PE) lessons, trends in its development have emerged over the past years, especially in secondary schools, which were certainly not intended by the pedagogical programme of "reflective co-education", which stands for respect for equality…

A key area of interest is the way in which early years educators' perceptions about the concept of gender may influence their practice in relation to how children's ideas about gender might be supported and reinforced. However, this area has received little attention in the highly gender-segregated context of Pakistan. Understanding evidence-based…

A 1911 popular-magazine article by John Dewey is analyzed along with other writings by and about him in an attempt to determine Dewey's views on women, feminism, and coeducation. (MT)

We conducted an archival study at a coeducational Catholic university to test the proposition that single-sex secondary education predicts lasting differences in college majors. Men from single-sex schools were more likely to both declare and graduate in gender-neutral majors than those from coeducational schools. Women from single-sex schools…

Presents opposing viewpoints on the issue of whether women's colleges are the best way for educating women. Considers the effects of coeducation and how women develop in both situations as students and as individuals. (RK)

While American educators are making a self-conscious effort to minimize sex differences in school programs, sex-role differentiation is thriving in many foreign schools. Article examined the issues behind the education of girls and women in countries where sexual equality has not yet become official policy. (Author/RK)

Despite efforts of West Point to integrate female cadets with males, male cadets' attitudes toward women did not become more favorable during the first year of coeducation. Estimates suggest that it may be a long time before women are accepted fully into academy life. (Author/WI)

Uses the conversion of McGill University to a coeducational institution in 1884 as a case study of the role of women in universities. Gillett discusses the educational implications of traditional and feminist views of women in terms of female stereotypes, perceptions of female educability, and the role of women in society. (AM)

The mandatory provision to make sixth grade classes in home economics and industrial arts at Schaghticoke Middle School coeducational created a controversy between the National Organization for Women and the John Birchers. (EC)

Are girls less likely to be treated as second-class citizens if they are educated separately from boys? Compares the views of girls in a single-sex comprehensive with those of girls in a co-educational school.(Editor/RK)

A study of the sex role stereotypes held by 538 first-term Australian university students from single-sex and coeducational high schools is presented. Results suggest that coeducational schooling may have some advantages for fostering interactions with the opposite sex. (MSE)