With the emergence of a new generation of strong and empowered female student leaders on college campuses, a special type of female leader, the Alpha Female, has developed. This study examines the essence of having an Alpha Female identity for 13 undergraduate women at a Midwestern university. Extensive interviews were conducted; transcripts were…

Scattered throughout this issue are brief personal remarks by women in various teaching and professional fields, which discuss their interest in destroying female role stereotypes. (CJ)

The characterization of Molly Bloom, as portrayed by James Joyce in Ulysses, is an embodiment not of what woman is but of what man in a sexist society would like her to be. (Author/CJ)

Article evaluated sex role stereotypes in children's books and how they affect children's attitudes. (Author/RK)

Many obstacles inhibit women from realizing their leadership potential: confusion about giftedness, psychological and cultural barriers to owning and displaying one's abilities, and ambivalent attitudes toward exceptional ability in women. Encourages feminist psychologists to respond to gifted women's unique affective needs, and focuses on…

New efforts in career education focus largely upon the idea of work, and its multiple and related forms, without indicating an awareness that sexist prejudices still pervade the entire curriculum and are subtly reflected in the attitudes of the school personnel. (Author/CB)

Updates important studies of women and blacks in mass media advertising and concludes that, in general, negative stereotyping still exists. (MH)

Counselor responses to 25 attitudinal questions about women and work were analyzed, revealing more positive than negative attitudes but some ambivalence. (Author)

Four diverse groups of women (members of the university women's caucus, a sample of undergraduates, a group of secretarial and clerical women, and a nonworking group) agreed on the prestige accorded to different occupations. The same groups showed clear differences when asked whether the occupations were appropriate for women. (Author/EAK)

Traditional images of women's roles are changing and program guides prepared by members of several branches of the American Association of University Women are helpful in dispelling the myths. (JB)

Sixty-four kindergarten children were pretested for ability to conserve liquid quantity and on an original picture test of vocations, choosing a man, a woman, or both as suitable for particular jobs. It was observed that conservers made significantly more male and total choices than did nonconservers. (Author)

This paper deals with two sets of data-one that fails to find any long-term sex differences in adults, and another which seems to find such differences. The Berkeley Guidance Study offers longitudinal data in which no variables differentiate between the two sexes at all age levels. From these results, the authors conclude that the normal course of…

Discusses the contents of children's literature and textbooks written for children which perpetuate sexual stereotypes of females. (RB)