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Britton, Helen Ann – 1976
During the 1960's educators became aware that the role models presented by educational materials to minority children helped shape the role that the children ultimately occupied in the society. Similarly, it has been observed that the media presents a negative image of women which may result in unfulfilling role adaptation, a process which becomes…
Descriptors: Children, Females, Feminism, Instructional Materials

Petro, Carole Smith; Putnam, Barbara A. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1979
This study examines the differences and trends in sex-role stereotypes between the original samples used to construct and reverse the Sex-Role Stereotype Questionnaire (SRSQ) in 1968, and a sample of 173 practicing school counselors to whom the SRSQ was administered in the fall of 1975. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Counselor Attitudes, Counselors, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools

Stromquist, Nelly – Convergence: An International Journal of Adult Education, 1986
The author explores nonformal education and its impact on women, specifically the questions, "What have they learned?" and "How has it improved their condition?" Findings are that most women have learned conventional skills and knowledge related to their maternal and domestic roles. Thus, it has not changed their condition. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Empowerment, Females, Nonformal Education

Oxford, Rebecca; And Others – Foreign Language Annals, 1988
Reports on the few studies that have explored sex differences in the use of language learning strategies and speculates why females appear to use a wider range of strategies than do males and why social strategies are more popular among women than men. (Author/DJD)
Descriptors: College Students, German, Higher Education, Language Research

Perlmutter, Jane Clarkson; Wampler, Karen Smith – Home Economics Research Journal, 1985
This study of 75 families with at least one preschool child examined the effects of sex-role orientation and wife's employment status on the division of housework and child care and husband and wife's satisfaction with that division. Results indicate that where wives work outside the home, husbands and wives share child care and housework more.…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Employed Women, Employment Level, Home Management
Hall, Guin – Phi Delta Kappan, 1973
Examines how the role of women within the home has changed and reviews legislation that makes equal job opportunity for women a requirement in theory. Considers five stereotypes about women that will have to be changed if women are to have equal job opportunities in practice. (Author/DN)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females

Goldman, Juliette D.G.; Goldman, Ronald J. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1983
Children's perceived differences between mothers and fathers, and their perceived roles were examined in several countries. In all groups, mothers are seen as predominantly concerned with domestic duties, while fathers are seen as occupying positions of higher status and playing authority/leadership roles in the family. (AOS)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Fathers
Arnold, Susan T. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1981
Explored how vocational choices inconsistent with sex-role expectations affect counselor's perceptions of male clients. After observing a male client choosing either a nursing or accounting career, graduate students assessed the clients' masculine or feminine attributes. Results indicated significant differences in counselor perceptions of clients…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Training, Graduate Students

Bers, Trudy Haffron – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1980
Returning women were slightly more egalitarian on attitudes toward sex-specific activities and the women's movement. They were significantly more traditional in attitudes toward fundamental differences between sex roles. Results suggest that women returning to school enhance support for feminist beliefs. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Females, Feminism, Role Perception

Bush, Diane; And Others – Public Opinion Quarterly, 1977
Indicates few differences between the 1968 and 1975 studies. Shows that girls in 1974-1975 still demonstrate lower self-esteem and less high evaluations of their sex roles than their male counterparts. (RL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Elementary Education, Females, Grade 6

Wolleat, Patricia L.; Skovholt, Thomas M. – Journal of Career Education, 1978
The authors look at the psychological literature on changing roles of men and women and provide a rationale for these changes. They propose a concept of androgyny and what they call "the symmetry option" as a goal for career socialization to maximize human development. (MF)
Descriptors: Androgyny, Attitude Change, Career Development, Females

Harriman, Lynda C. – Journal of Home Economics, 1977
Sex role theory and role development are reviewed in this discussion of what home economists can do to help adults adopt a more flexible view of role-related behaviors. (TA)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Futures (of Society), Home Economics Education, Life Style

Stroud, Judith E.; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1996
Compared preschoolers' and parents' reports of division of labor in single- versus dual-earner homes. Found that children with nonemployed mothers underestimated mother's responsibilities and overestimated sharing of caregiving by parents. Daughters in dual-earner families believed fathers engaged in more caregiving than parents indicated. All…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Childhood Attitudes, Dual Career Family, Employed Women

Lobel, Thalma E.; Slone, Michelle; Ashuach, Yael; Revach, Iris – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001
Investigated how men and women with high and low levels of education perceive male and female targets who participate or do not participate in household chores. It was found that both highly and less educated individuals perceive a male target who participates in household chores more favorably, this preference is more pronounced among more…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries
Gordon, Daryl – University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1995
The study reported here is an analysis of discourse in conversations with a Laotian woman who has lived in the United States with her husband and children since 1986. Analysis focuses on the nature of women's agency in Lao and U.S. cultures, highlighting the woman's perception of her changing identities as wife and mother. Excerpts of the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Discourse Analysis, Females, Immigrants