Discussed the necessity for eliminating sexist values from textbooks and reading materials for young readers. (Author/RK)

Sex-role concepts of 162 senior college women are explored in relationship to ego strenght, happiness, and achievement plans: the majority of women believe it possible to assume the roles of wife and mother while concomitantly pursuing extra-familial interests. (Author/JM)

Caution is necessary in contemplating placement of adolescent girls with sex role identity problems: postplacement visiting between daughter and mother is important. (Editor)

This sutdy of 200 senior college women investigates the relationship between non-sextypical occupational choices (Role Innovation) and background, personality, and college experience. (Author/JM)

Article is based on the study, Dick and Jane as Victims; Sex Stereotypes in Children's Readers," by Women on Words and Images, the 25-member task force of the Central New Jersey NOW organization. (RY)

This article reviews the role of women in the movies divided generally between the girl next door" and the addle brained sexpot". The absence of women in dominant roles, either on the screen or in production is noted and condemned. (CJ)

Focused on recorded tapes and sex-role interaction of 12 sessions on drug abuse. Subjects were 247 seventh-grade males and females. Communicators (males and females) made two presentations with roles rotated according to ex-addict/learned specialist. Results indicated female and male students were influenced most by female specialist…

The results suggest that mature women students may be more flexible in the sex-role identities and less tied to a nurturant, interpersonally oriented role but that they are not necessarily more ambitious, confident, or achievement-oriented than homemakers. (Author/DB)

Compared 60 Italian-Australian and 48 Anglo-Australian adolescent girls on self-esteem and measures associated with sex roles. Found self-esteem and sex role satisfaction did not differ in two groups, and no significant differences in attitudes toward sex role differentiation. Groups differed in pattern of variables associated with self-esteem and…

To clarify dominant perspectives on women in adult education publications, ethnographic content analysis was used to examine 112 journal articles in 4 major adult education journals. Articles analyzed were from two North American journals ("Adult Education"/"Adult Education Quarterly" and "Adult…

Discussed are the effects of sexist cultural norms and stereotypes that cause gifted girls to believe they must choose between femininity and intellectual achievement. (LH)

This study examined work and non-workplace sources of stress in the lives of women (N=403) currently employed as health-care providers. Female licensed practical nurses and social workers were sampled because they met the three criteria determined upon for the study; that is, they were all in high-stress occupations; women predominate in those…

Research dealing with attitudes toward women comparing black and white, male and female university students has had mixed results, but research on this topic has used a variety of measures. This study used black (N=162) and white (N=155) college students who completed Spence and Helmreich's 15-item Attitudes toward Women Scale which considers…

Is it possible that what is perceived as self-assertion in a man is perceived as aggression in a woman? These studies investigate whether (a) consciously feminist women place a greater than average importance on the value of equality and whether (b) women's approval for self-assertion in themselves and others interacts with their feminist…