The following are discussed with reference to title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibit sex discrimination in federally-supported educational programs: What is title IX? The letter of the law--can the school limit home economics to girls? Is a school in noncompliance if over 75 percent of the students in a home economics class…

Examines between-school variation in gender and ethnic inequality in course-taking of physics and biology. A multilevel analysis of 19,743 Israeli twelfth graders reveals the sciences are taken less often by underprivileged Jewish ethnic group students, physics is taken more often by males and biology by females, and gender typing is particularly…

Highlights the need in Nigeria for equal representation of the sexes in young adult reading materials. (AUTH/ARH)

This guide presents a model and plan to expedite implementation of sex equity in vocational education through the elimination of sex stereotyping and sex bias. Aimed at vocational education administrators, the guide is organized into the four steps of the plan. Step 1 provides a rationale for the decision to implement a model sex equity program,…