Attempts to delineate the areas of role conflict for women and to establish a conflict hierarchy. Suggests that the greatest role conflict revolves around a woman's image of herself, and that those areas which deal more directly with that central concept are more stressful. (Author/PC)

Although the terms autonomy and advocacy have proliferated in nursing literature and in nursing curricula over the past decade, the degree to which registered nurses claim these dimensions in their practices and in their thinking has remained unknown. A study was conducted to determine the relationship between nurses' self-concepts and their…

One of a series emanating from a three-year project concerned with the role of women in the English-speaking Caribbean, this publication discusses images, roles, and stereotypes of the Caribbean woman. The project's objectives are to establish in the region a data base for teaching, research, and planning purposes and to develop guidelines for a…

The project of which this study is a part has as its broad aim the exploration of psychosocial factors associated with pregnancy among adolescent females. Over the last 30 years, the idea of moral development as a strong and pervasive influence on an individual's behavior has become an integral part of thinking about childhood and adolescence,…

Article considered women's search for self identity and her objectives for equality of opportunity and social status. (RK)

Article outlined the developing role of women in American society and provided some suggestions for helping to equalize male and female roles. (RK)

The study was designed to investigate perception of conflict and outcome across women's roles. A variation of the Thematic Apperception Test was used. Female graduate students (N=93) wrote stories to three pictorial cues. Each cue depicted women in a role: girl-friend/wife role, worker role, mother role. The 279 protocols (93 ss X 3 cues = 279)…

The workshop on the Utilization of Women's Resources in the Young Men's Christian Associations (YMCA) in examining women's role in the organization undercovered much bias against women (especially with regard to leadership and competency) which impacted on personnel policies, organizational climate, programing, and relationships with the…

Based on a sample of (466) midwestern college women, this study reported on differences in feminine role orientation related to: (1) the student's year in college, (2) whether she was on a branch or the central campus of the university where research was to be conducted, and (3) whether she was working for a baccalaureate or Ph.D. degree. Results…

This paper discusses women who enter male-dominated professions, so-called "Role Innovators", and some of the personality and background characteristics of these women. Findings include that (1) Role-Innovators' mothers were more likely to be working and to have Role-Innovative professions themselves; although the daughters' aspirations…

Article provided a brief look at the history and development of sex roles in an attempt to understand how that role definition developed and why it is only now being seriously challenged. (Author/RK)

Compares women defining themselves as retired with those defining themselves as housewives despite having worked outside the home. Examined variables are (1) work continuity, (2) occupation type, (3) work satisfaction, (4) number of years worked, (5) quitting age, and (6) full- versus part-time employment. (Author/CH)

Discusses the use of a system of sort cards that focus on the dilemmas of working women. The cards are used as a basis for therapy to help women focus on and come to terms with their ambivalences. (Author/ABB)

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