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Arar, Khalid; Oplatka, Izhar – School Leadership & Management, 2013
This article reports the findings of a study that sought to identify Muslim teachers' constructions of "masculinity" and "femininity" of the school principal. The first purpose of the study was to trace Muslim teachers' perceptions of masculine and feminine features of school principals, and the second was to explore their…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Leadership Qualities, Sexual Identity, Muslims
Ashton, Kasey – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This narrative inquiry explored how transgender college students construct, experience, and make meaning of gender. Gender is not constructed or understood in isolation; it is therefore essential to consider how personal cognition intersects with and is influenced by an internal sense of self and relationships with others when exploring how…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Personal Narratives, Sexual Identity, Epistemology
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Chan, Anita K. W. – Gender and Education, 2011
Over the past two decades, the feminisation of primary school teaching has been identified by the media and government officials in Western countries as an important contributing factor to boys' academic problems. This panic, which has been criticised by feminists as a backlash and a form of recuperative politics, has promoted the development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Masculinity
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Morojele, P. J. – Africa Education Review, 2012
This paper gives prominence to rural teachers' own accounts of gender in three co-educational primary schools in Lesotho. The paper employs the social constructionist paradigm as its theoretical framework. Drawing from ethnographic data (observations and informal discussions), it discusses factors that inform teachers' constructions of gender and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Teacher Attitudes, Gender Differences
Breda, Thomas; Ly, Son Thierry – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2012
Stereotypes, role models played by teachers and social norms influence girls' academic self-concept and push girls to choose humanities rather than science. Do recruiters reinforce this strong selection by discriminating more against girls in more scientific subjects? Using the entrance exam of a French higher education institution (the Ecole…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Higher Education, Females, Gender Discrimination
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Karami, Roya; Ismail, Maimunah; Sail, Rahim Md. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2011
This article examines the relationship between gender identity and career aspirations of a group of Iranian international postgraduate students studying at a Malaysian public university. This study uses the Farmer's Achievement Motivation Theory and Astin's Sociopsychological Model of Career Choice as theoretical framework. The data were collected…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Career Choice, Sexual Identity, English (Second Language)
Dean, Michelle Carol – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation contains two studies, which are intended to expand our current knowledge about girls with ASD without intellectual disability. The first study examined sex-differences in ASD symptom endorsement and coexisting internalizing and externalizing behaviors. The second study explored the social behaviors of boys and girls with ASD at…
Descriptors: Females, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Gender Differences
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Archer, Louise; DeWitt, Jennifer; Osborne, Jonathan; Dillon, Justin; Willis, Beatrice; Wong, Billy – Science Education, 2012
There is international concern over persistent low rates of participation in postcompulsory science--especially the physical sciences--within which there is a notable underrepresentation of girls/women. This paper draws on data collected from a survey of more than 9,000 10/11-year-old pupils and 170 interviews (with 92 children and 78 parents)…
Descriptors: Females, Sexual Identity, Foreign Countries, Career Choice
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Ferrero Camoletto, Raffaella – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2011
Based on survey data of 1000 young people aged 18-29 and semi-structured interviews with 51 young people aged 18-34 living in a north-western Italian region, the article explores how they account for their first heterosexual intercourse. Young people describe and make sense of their experiences by referring to sexual scripts; narrative sequences…
Descriptors: Scripts, Interviews, Biographies, Sexuality
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Spence, Janet T. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2011
All good stories should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. The related pair of articles that earned the author a place in this Special Section, "Masculine Instrumentality and Feminine Expressiveness: Their Relationships with Sex Role Attitudes and Behaviors" (Spence & Helmreich, 1980) and "Instrumental and Expressive…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Story Telling, Career Development, Education Work Relationship
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Goldberg, Abbie E.; Smith, JuliAnna Z.; Perry-Jenkins, Maureen – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2012
Little research has investigated the division of child care and housework in adoptive or lesbian/gay parent families, yet these contexts "control for" family characteristics such as biological relatedness and parental gender differences known to be linked to family work. This study examined predictors (measured preadoption) of the division of…
Descriptors: Adoption, Homosexuality, Housework, Family Characteristics
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Straiton, Melanie L.; Hjelmeland, Heidi; Grimholt, Tine K.; Dieserud, Gudrun – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2013
A total of thirty-two women admitted to a general hospital for medical treatment after self-harming completed measures of conventional positive and negative masculinity and femininity. Comparisons were made with two control groups with no self-harm history; 33 women receiving psychiatric outpatient treatment and a nonclinical sample of 206 women.…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Gender Differences, Self Destructive Behavior, Masculinity
Ziliak, Zoe Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigates adults' ability to change their phonetic systems in perception and production, specifically upon exposure to a new dialect in adulthood. It further addresses the relative importance of binary biological sex and socially constructed gender in predicting an individual's sociolinguistic variation. Perception and production…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Dialects, Auditory Perception, Phonetics
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Lucas, Kristen – Communication Teacher, 2011
Every day people are bombarded with information about romantic relationships. Magazine articles offer how-to advice on flirting, dating, and fixing relationship problems. Advertisements--from billboards to radio commercials to email marketing campaigns--feature products that promise to help people attract a special someone. Television and movie…
Descriptors: College Students, Dating (Social), Behavior Standards, Intimacy
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Brownhill, Simon – Gender and Education, 2014
Young boys' "underachievement" and their disaffection with learning continue to dominate education agendas [Francis, B. 2006. "Stop That Sex Drive." "Times Educational Supplement" 30; Peeters, J. 2007. "Including Men in Early Childhood Education: Insights from the European Experience." "NZ Research in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Underachievement, Achievement Gap
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