This study examines the educational persistence of women of African descent (WOAD) in pursuit of a doctorate degree at universities in the southeastern United States. WOAD are women of African ancestry born outside the African continent. These women are heirs to an inner dogged determination and spirit to survive despite all odds (Pulliam, 2003,…

This study examined college women's plans for egalitarian marriages. One hundred and forty-four heterosexual undergraduate women completed surveys about their preferences for different life scenarios and their attitudes about work and family life. The pattern of their preferences showed a distinction between home-centered, balanced, and…

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…

Considers myth of black woman as superwoman, contending instead that black woman is ordinary woman in extraordinary circumstances. Asserts that persistence of belief that whatever else she is, woman is homemaker and caregiver to children, is likely to keep myth of black woman as superwoman alive with all its deleterious effects. (NB)

Digital games have typically been considered a male leisure activity; however, recent statistics indicate that increasing numbers of females are now playing games. The purpose of this review is to investigate how the influx of girl gamers and the emergence of female-oriented game design can inform instructional design for the construction of…

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)

This paper attempts to trace the historical and societal development of sex roles as related to women in today's society. Discussions include the role of the female in tribal societies, the development of monogamous marriage, and the societal influences which identify a woman primarily as a housewife and mother from the 16th-20th centuries.…

Article listed twelve gains from having women share in the same opportunities and responsibilities as men contrasted with current attitudes men have towards women. (RK)

Discussed the need for shared responsibility among men and women and the changing role of women in society. (RK)

Nineteen older women gave their perceptions of great-grandmotherhood. They modeled their behavior on their earlier role of grandmother, but age and lack of geographic proximity restricted their ability to carry it out in the same way. Great-grandmotherhood was significant for symbolic and emotional rather than social and instrumental reasons.…

Several reasons that the Women's Liberation movement is dying are: (1) most women still prefer the status quo: (2) most women still put home and family first; (3) black women have not generally supported it; (4) declining job market has had a negative effect; and (5) extremism has turned off the men who must be won over for success of the…

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)