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Leaving College: A Gender Comparison in Male and Female-Dominated Programs
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Severiens, Sabine; ten Dam, Geert – Research in Higher Education, 2012
Women, on average, outnumber men and are more successful in higher education. A literature overview showed that these differences may be explained by gender differences in learner characteristics, by external factors and by institutional factors. This study aims to explain gender differences in higher education in more detail by focusing on one of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Gender Differences, Role
Pedagogical Professionalism and Gender in Daycare
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Timmerman, Greetje; Schreuder, Pauline – Gender and Education, 2008
In the Netherlands, moral panic about boys' education and behavioural problems has led to public concern about the almost exclusively female environment in which young boys in daycare find themselves. Female daycare workers are attacked for creating a feminized culture in daycare centres. In this article we explore the extent to which these media…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Vocational Education, Males
The Perils of Political Correctness: Men's and Women's Responses to Old-Fashioned and Modern Sexist Views
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Barreto, Manuela; Ellemers, Naomi – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2005
In this study we examined the responses of male and female research participants to information about the endorsement of either old-fashioned or modern sexist views by a sample of either men or women. We predicted that expressions of modern sexism may seem unobjectionable but can have negative consequences. Moreover, they can impair behavioral…
Descriptors: Females, Political Attitudes, Gender Bias, Anxiety