Use of an experiential learning approach in which participants learn from data generated in exercises, cases, and role-playing has a lasting impact when participants return to their jobs. (Author)

Interviews of 30 women in the parks and recreation field centered on: (1) how their careers developed; (2) whether and how they have been discriminated against; and (3) advice they have for other career-minded women. Experiences and perceptions these women share and other aspects of their careers are presented. (CJ)

Fathers' independent performance of child-care tasks was: (1) positively related to maternal work role and nontraditional sex role ideology; and (2) negatively related to daughters' stereotyping and to fathers' perceptions of themselves as stereotypically masculine. Wives' role-pattern satisfaction was negatively related to both joint and…

The author recounts her experiences in becoming a psychologist, and the problems she faced both as a woman and as an Asian. (MC)

Patterns of female labor force participation in five areas of Colombia are examined. Using recent survey data, these patterns are first related to frequently suggested demographic and economic variables. Then the impact of cultural mores as reflected in five characteristic family types, is explored. (Author)

Examines the relationship among the advertising industry, the actual "reality" of working women, and sociocultural constructions of female gender identity immediately before, during, and immediately following World War II. Finds that advertisers returned to prewar versions of social reality immediately after the war. (SR)

Three misconceptions about working women are (1) they have lower self-confidence and organizational commitment; (2) they choose family over career; and (3) they do not have the same leadership skills as men. Changes that will not work to alter sex segregation are affirmative action, gender training, and seeding. (SK)

Developed a brief multidimensional measure of aversion to women who work using data collected from 175 predominantly lower income Anglo American undergraduate and graduate students. Findings indicated that the 10-item measure exhibited acceptable reliability, as well as adequate convergent and criterion validities, thus making it a potential…

Considerable confusion exists over male/female relationships in the work place, especially in such male-dominated professions as law enforcement. The laws governing sexual harassment offer unclear guidelines regarding the definition of harm that results from such harassment. This paper addresses the special problems of sexual harassment in the…

A survey-experiment was conducted with a national sample of managers and executives. Results reflected a pattern of discrimination based on (1) less managerial confidence in the ability of women to balance home and career responsibilities; and (2) less expectation that career women's husbands should sacrifice for the sake of their careers. (Author)

Preintegration attitudes and expectations of 1,936 men and 346 women assigned to six Navy ships were measured before the women reported aboard, through the administration of gender-specific versions of the "Navy in Transition" questionnaire. An additional 483 men assigned to a ship not scheduled for integration completed the…

Over the past 20 years a large number of studies have analyzed the behavior of male and female principals and the attitudes of teachers toward both. A review of this literature dramatically demonstrates the wide disparity between the popularly held beliefs and the empirical evidence. (Author)

This paper discusses some of the ways women can combat inequities in the educational system that keep them from attaining top administrative posts. It includes a discussion of attitudes and stereotypes that limit women's upward mobility. A checklist of recommendations for handling on-the-job problems is also offered, as are suggestions for helping…

Touhey has suggested that an influx of women into high-status, male-dominated professions will result in declining prestige and desirability for those professions. The present study attempts both a replication and an extension to examine results of changing sex ratios in low-status and female-dominated occupations. (Author)

Analyzes 2,250 responses to employee questionnaires that measured seven variables related to employees' perceived centrality of work. Statistical analysis of the data generally supports the conventional wisdom that males generally consider work more central than females. (JG)