Discusses the popular "Queen Bee" stereotype of successful female executives, and concludes that the stereotype is too narrow in focus and fails to take into account complex psychological and experiential variables. (Author/EJT)

Nine out of 10 girls can expect to work for pay; six of them will be part of the labor force for 30 years. Today five out of ten women between the ages of 18 and 64 are working outside the home. A young woman must plan to be a worker as well as wife and mother. One fourth of all American Indian women who work for pay are clerical workers,…

The third of three booklets deals with the roles of women and men in educational administration. Recent data indicate that there is a notable underrepresentation of women in educational administration and they earn less. Guidelines to implement affirmative action include establishing a task force or a committee to study equal employment…

Limited attention has been paid to the impact of sex role stereotypical thinking on the performance of women in management. The author examines research on organizational factors. differential placement, tokenism, and supervisory bias. (Editor/RK)

The career development program described affected significant improvement in overall career awareness and in factual knowledge of the occupational status of women today. Did not effect significant changes in level of maturity of career choice attitudes, in self-appraisals competency, and in attitudes toward the rights and roles of women. (Author)

Discusses ways in which working situations could be changed to increase the role of men in childrearing. Considers present American attitudes, examples from Norway and Sweden, and possible ways of restructuring working situations in the U.S. (SB)

Examines the way in which schools contribute to sex role stereotyping, reviews selected research and hypothesizes that the way in which American females are socialized disadvantages them in the labor force. (Editor)

Explored the possibility of changing male attitudes toward women's career development using two videotapes, one featuring men and one featuring women. Results showed the group viewing the videotape featuring men was significantly more liberal. Discusses implications for counseling and research. (PAS)

Examined reported amounts of time adolescents (N=52) spent in various types of household work. Findings indicated sex-role stereotyping in adolescents' time use. Females spent more time in housework than males. Found majority of adolescents contributing some time to household work, and discusses related variables. (RC)

Examined sex-role stereotyping and its relation to sex-role norms. Results show children stereotyped in behavioral descriptions and occupational choices more than did college students. Children whose mothers were employed were more stereotyped in occupational choices. College students evidenced a very low rate of stereotyping in behavioral…

A study was conducted to determine what types of jobs youth are most likely to accept and to distinguish whether the characteristics and backgrounds of young people influence their reservation wages for given jobs. (Author/CT)

Maternal employment, perceived maternal satisfaction and goodness of mothering, and sex role conceptions were studied as they relate to future life plans of college senior women (N=51). Daughters of working mothers scored higher on career orientation than did daughters of nonworking mothers. (Author)

Reviews selected literature from the small group communication research on gender and leadership emergence and suggests implications of this research for women seeking administrative positions. Hopes that, as men and women become sensitive to effects of sex-role stereotypes on group dynamics and leadership behaviors, there will be increase in…

Theorizes that workplace sexual harassment results from the complex interplay of ambivalent motives and gender stereotyping of women and jobs. It argues that ambivalence combines hostile and "benevolent" sexist motives based on paternalism, gender differentiation, and heterosexuality and that organizational context can encourage or discourage the…

Analysis of matched samples of Swiss (n=443) and U.S. (n=740) women found important differences. Labor force participation of the Swiss was more strongly influenced by family configuration. Associations between educational credentials and occupational sex typing was more persistent in Switzerland. Results show how cultural, institutional, and…