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Zuckerman, Diana M.; Sayre, Donald H. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1982
In research on sex role attitudes, career choices, and considered appropriateness of men and women participating in 14 sex-stereotyped occupations, children demonstrated nonstereotypic attitudes toward the 14 occupations, chose traditional careers (those dominated by the subject's sex) for themselves, and gave stereotypic reasons for preferring…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Childhood Attitudes, Family Characteristics, Females

Havighurst, Robert J. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1983
Sex role development is discussed, beginning with processes through which children adopt sexual identity and related behaviors. The growth of androgyny (measured by the Bem Sex Role Inventory) in adult males and females is documented, and changes in the sex role behavior of men and women over 50 are described. (PP)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Androgyny, Behavior Change, Child Development

Cohen, Rochelle F.; Cohen, Michael R. – School Science and Mathematics, 1980
Discussed are the effects of discrimination and bias caused by conformity to sex roles. Strategies including classroom organization, system-wide response, and students activities are suggested for combating sex-role stereotyping within science and math classes. (Author/DS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education

Ortiz, Flora Ida – Educational Horizons, 1979
This study identified the process by which sex-typing occurs within the field of medicine. It concludes that acceptance within a profession depends upon establishing a role identity and occupying an organizational space that leads to acquisition of skills, attitudes, and knowledge necessary for professional role occupancy. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Females, Interpersonal Relationship, Medicine, Organizational Climate
Gradin, Sherrie L. – National Forum: Phi Kappa Phi Journal, 1994
Male and female students are culturally shaped in their reading and writing strategies. Men and women college students are more likely to be successful learners if they can examine the ways in which reading and writing are culturally defined for them and integrate that information into classroom activities. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Cultural Differences, Higher Education

DeHeer, N. Dean; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1992
Investigated sex-typed and androgynous subjects' (n=21) preferences for male and female counselors of low, medium, and high levels of effectiveness. Both groups of subjects used information related to effectiveness and ignored gender information, contrary to the predictions of gender schema theory that sex-typed subjects would use gender when…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Client Attitudes (Human Services), Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Qualifications

Simon, Lorna; And Others – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1992
Examined relationship between gender and sex role orientation of clients as predictors of counselors' interpersonal impressions of them and treatment expectancies. Findings from 16 counseling psychology doctoral student counselors concerning 47 clients suggest that highly masculine and highly feminine clients (regardless of gender) are perceived…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counselor Attitudes, Expectation, Graduate Students

Westland, Ella – Gender and Education, 1993
Describes a project designed to test the feminist hypothesis that the Cinderella-style fairytales promoted by Anglo-American society harmfully reinforce restrictive images of girlhood and womanhood. Results indicate that girls 9 to 11 years of age are "resisting readers," able to criticize and manipulate--as well as enjoy--the gender images…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Fairy Tales, Females, Feminism
Gillett, N.; And Others – 1977
This study was designed to further explore the relationship between sex role identity and social competence in a developmental context. Two specific questions were of concern: Do levels of masculinity, femininity and social competence vary by age, and does the relationship of masculinity and femininity remain constant and positive in non-college…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Developmental Stages, Females, Human Development
Kohlmann, Eleanor L. – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1975
Decisions about curricular offerings to boys in home economics must focus on the educational needs of boys, taking into account the likenesses and differences between the sexes. A discussion of the findings of a three-year study concentrates on what boys perceive these characteristic needs to be. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Educational Needs, Home Economics Education
Smith, Patricia A.; Midlarsky, Elizabeth – 1981
Sex-role research has placed considerable emphasis on the measurement of maleness and femaleness within individuals, and upon measures of the degree of sex-role stereotyping within American society. The nature and type of conceptions of femaleness and maleness generated by blacks and whites in an open-ended questionnaire were investigated.…
Descriptors: Adults, Androgyny, Attitude Measures, Identification (Psychology)
Walker, Alexis J. – 1981
Theorists have predicted that individuals in a relationship initially follow social norms and later follow the mutually-agreed-upon norms which have evolved from the relationship. Since social norms prescribe sex-stereotyped behavior, an androgynous person may initially behave in a sex-typed way. Same-sex pairs (N=26) of undergraduates, matched on…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Behavior Change, Behavior Standards, Congruence (Psychology)
Welsh, Mary C.; Hawker, James – 1978
The relationships between several commonly utilized women's role questionnaires and several personality inventories was investigated. Undergraduates students (120 females, 80 males) completed several personality and sex-role questionnaires including the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI); Rotter's Locus of Control Scale (I-E), MAFERR Forms A, B,…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Personality Measures, Personality Studies
Uzoaru, Ben – 1976
Past studies on economic discrimination against women have dealt with existence and effects. An examination of how origins, nature, and causes of discrimination are socially determined during the pre-industrial stage of economic development focused on the experience of Nigeria as a case study. The existence of a family-oriented system in which the…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Status, Educational Discrimination, Enrollment
Geadelmann, Patricia Lou – 1974
Elementary school students were interviewed with the goal of determining characteristics and behavioral patterns they considered appropriate for one sex or the other in participation in sports. Children from kindergarten through the sixth grade were examined and compared by grade, sex, and race in their gender-related attitudes. The instrument…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Elementary Education, Physical Activities, Physical Education