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)

Three women tell their reactions to being in a traditionally male technical program in Alberta, Canada. (HD)

Advancements in higher education for women since colonial times, during the appearance of female academies, and as a result of the establishment of land grant colleges are reviewed. (LBH)

This study examines the accomplishments of four women who served as deans of women, a once-crucial but now defunct role, in U.S. coeducational institutions in the South. Their contributions are assessed by examining five areas: institutions, impediments, initiatives, infrastructure, and intimacy. Surveying the careers of Sarah Gibson Blanding,…

There is little definitive research to support coeducational grouping as the optimal grouping pattern for first grade boys and girls. (Authors)

Argues that many of the problems black women students have to adjusting to predominantly white colleges are rooted in the scarcity of black males available for social life and dating. (JM)

Overall distribution of women in institutions of higher education suggests discriminatory attitudes and practices. (IR)

This article abridges a talk presented last June 13 before the Wayne State University Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, Detroit.

The normative environments of single-sex independent schools were found to be more academic, with greater task and competition orientation, than coeducational independent schools. Representative independent schools were compared to each other and to public schools with a discussion of learning involvement, function, purpose, and student and…

The pressures and processes which led to the admission of girls into traditionally all-male British public schools are examined. A case study suggests that economic and social changes were important considerations. (Author/RM)

One of the biggest changes in the Job Corps program has been the conversion of many single-sex centers to coeducational facilities. Interviews with program administrators at the national and center levels indicate that "coeding," the catchword for the conversion, is both popular and effective. (WL)

Feelings of closeness to professors of 201 students were studied at a women's college, two coed colleges, and a university. Overall, students felt closer to female professors. Students at one coed college felt the greatest closeness to professors of either gender. (SLD)

Evaluates attitudes towards and achievement in science of Form 3 students studying in single-sex and coeducational schools in Brunei. Results demonstrated significant differences in attitudes towards and achievement in science of male and female students in single-sex schools and students in coeducational schools. (Contains 46 references.)…

Among 1,012 Nigerian ninth graders in 40 schools, girls in single-sex schools had higher mathematics achievement and less stereotypic views of mathematics than girls in coed schools, whereas boys in single-sex schools were negatively affected compared to those in coed schools. Contains 46 references. (SV)