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Westfield, Nancy Lynne – Religious Education, 2006
In this article, the author shares her experience with her female African-American student who happened to be a Black female patriarch. She discusses what Patriarchy and Black female Patriarchy means. She states that, Patriarchy, as defined by Candace Jenkins, is the rule of the father, including the rule of older men over younger men and of…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Student Behavior, African Americans, Women Faculty
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Ross, Steven J.; Okabe, Junko – International Journal of Testing, 2006
Test validity is predicated on there being a lack of bias in tasks, items, or test content. It is well-known that factors such as test candidates' mother tongue, life experiences, and socialization practices of the wider community may serve to inject subtle interactions between individuals' background and the test content. When the gender of the…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Language Tests, Test Validity, Reading Comprehension
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Yu, Wei-Hsin; Su, Kuo-Hsien – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2006
This study examines how sibship characteristics affect educational attainment in Taiwan. Using a multilevel analysis of a sibling sample of 12,715 observations from 3,001 families drawn from a national survey, we investigate the effects of family size, sibship density, birth-order rank, and sibship gender composition. The results support the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Siblings, National Surveys
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Warren, Karen; Loeffler, TA – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2006
This article provides a theoretical foundation for understanding women's technical skill development (TSD) in outdoor adventure. An examination of societal and biological factors influencing women's TSD focuses on gender role socialization, sense of competence, technical conditioning, sexism, spatial ability, and risk-taking. The article suggests…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Job Skills, Physical Activities, Sex Role
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Miliszewska, Iwona; Barker, Gayle; Henderson, Fiona; Sztendur, Ewa – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2006
The under-representation and poor retention of women in computing courses at Victoria University is a concern that has continued to defy all attempts to resolve it. Despite a range of initiatives created to encourage participation and improve retention of females in the courses, the percentage of female enrolments has declined significantly in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Females, Focus Groups, Access to Computers
Govinda, R.; Bandyopadhyay, Madhumita – Online Submission, 2008
This analytical review aims at exploring trends in educational access and delineating different groups, which are vulnerable to exclusion from educational opportunities at the elementary stage. This review has drawn references from series of analytical papers developed on different themes i.e. regional disparity in education, social equity and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Access to Education
National Math and Science Initiative, 2008
This paper presents the annual report of the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) for 2008. Eighteen months ago, the National Math and Science Initiative did not exist. Today NMSI is helping lead the country forward in math and science. In just 18 months, NMSI has rolled out the first round of grants and has implemented programs in 14…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Incentives, Grants, Mathematics Achievement
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Roach, Bonnie L. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
Many federal laws, such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, have enabled women and minorities access to the workplace. These same laws have mandated that employers prevent discrimination against women and minorities, yet when employers utilize various strategies for eliminating discrimination in the workplace, they have found themselves…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Federal Legislation, Diversity (Institutional), Compliance (Legal)
Laugharn, Peter – Online Submission, 2007
Inspired by the 1990 Jomtien World Conference on Education for All and by the experience of non-governmental organisations such as BRAC, Save the Children/USA established a community schools project in southern Mali, working with 777 villages to establish and run their own primary schools between 1992 and 1998. These schools enrolled over 45,000…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Females, Educational Policy, Dropouts
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Coughlin, Mimi – History Teacher, 2007
The active participation of women in the field of American history dates back to the earliest writings on the subject. The rich and long history of women writing, teaching and researching in the field of American History, however, is obscured by narrow disciplinary definitions of what actually counts as history and who is qualified to represent…
Descriptors: United States History, Feminism, Females, Biographies
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Zedan, Shoroke H. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2007
The structure and admission policy of secondary and postsecondary education in Egypt constitutes a culture of great prestige in general school and university education, as opposed to vocational school and technical education. Youth mainly from rural and underdeveloped urban areas enroll in technical education. Because of poverty, many girls and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Urban Areas, Rural Areas, Educational Change
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Widiger, Thomas A.; Samuel, Douglas B. – Psychological Assessment, 2005
The purpose of this article is to provide a foundation for the development of evidence-based guidelines for the assessment of personality disorders, focusing in particular on integrated assessment strategies. The general strategy recommended herein is to first administer a self-report inventory to alert oneself to the potential presence of…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Personality Problems, Personality Change, Personality Traits
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Shorter-Gooden, Kumea – Journal of Black Psychology, 2004
This qualitative study of a community sample of 196 African American women aimed to identify the coping strategies that Black women use to manage the stress of racism and sexism. The findings reveal that they use multiple resistance strategies: (a) three ongoing internal coping strategies (resting on faith--relying on prayer and spirituality;…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Coping, Females, African Americans
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Williams, Joan C. – Academe, 2004
Women's lack of progress in academe is well documented: in its 1999-2000 report, the AAUP's Committee on the Economic Status of the Profession found "striking evidence of a distorted gender distribution by rank." Women are more likely than men to end up in low-paid, non tenure-track positions that are often a dead end. Women who do manage to…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Differences, College Faculty, Women Faculty
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Hirshbein, Laura D.; Fitzgerald, Kate; Riba, Michelle – Academic Psychiatry, 2004
Objective: This article explores past, present, and future issues for women and teaching in academic psychiatry. A small study of didactic teaching responsibilities along faculty groups in one academic psychiatry department helps to illustrate challenges and opportunities for women in psychiatric teaching settings. Background: Although women have…
Descriptors: Tenure, Women Faculty, Medical Schools, Females
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