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Winkle-Wagner, Rachelle – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
Racial and gender inequities persist among college students, despite ongoing efforts to combat them. Students of color face alienation, stereotyping, low expectations, and lingering racism even as they actively engage in the academic and social worlds of college life. "The Unchosen Me" examines the experiences of African American collegiate women…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Students, Race, Females
Page, Melanie C.; Bailey, Lucy E.; Van Delinder, Jean – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2009
The under-representation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields is of continuing concern, as is the lack of women in senior positions and leadership roles. During a time of increasing demand for science and engineering enterprise, the lack of women and minorities in these academic disciplines needs to be addressed by…
Descriptors: Females, Disproportionate Representation, Gender Issues, Science Education
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Anugwom, Edlyne E. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2009
This paper examines the implication of the growing educational opportunities for women in Nigeria. Although bias has existed from the traditional Nigerian society against women, recent events especially in education reveal a conquering of this deep-rooted prejudice. Enrollment figures particularly in the last ten years show a remarkable bridging…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Females, Labor Market, Foreign Countries
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Lapid, Maria; Moutier, Christine; Dunn, Laura; Hammond, Katherine Green; Roberts, Laura Weiss – Academic Psychiatry, 2009
Objective: Awareness of the privileges and limits of one's role as physician, as well as recognition and respect for the patient as a human being, are central to ethical medical practice. The authors were particularly interested in examining the attitudes and perceived needs of psychiatric residents toward education on professional boundaries and…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Physicians, Patients, Ethics
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Price, Neil; Knibbs, Sarah – Children & Society, 2009
This review article questions the assumptions at the core of peer education interventions adopted in young people's sexual and reproductive health programmes in developing countries. Peer education is a more complex and problematic approach than its popularity with development agencies and practitioners implies. Its rise to prominence is more…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Health Promotion, Youth, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Allen, Christopher T.; Swan, Suzanne C.; Raghavan, Chitra – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
This study of a predominantly Hispanic sample of 92 male and 140 female college students examines both gender symmetry in intimate partner violence (IPV) and inconsistent relationships found in previous studies between sexist attitudes and IPV. Results indicate that although comparable numbers of men and women perpetrate and are victimized in…
Descriptors: Females, Interpersonal Relationship, Path Analysis, Gender Bias
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Whitehead, Kay – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2009
This paper highlights ways in which understandings about masculinity intersected with concepts of vocation, career and character in the life and work of an Australian teacher, Victor Pavia. Firstly, it outlines his vertical career path from teacher to headmaster and then inspector, made possible in a bureaucratised state school system that…
Descriptors: Educational History, Public Schools, Personality Traits, Foreign Countries
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Bhana, Deevia; de Lange, Naydene; Mitchell, Claudia – Educational Review, 2009
In South Africa, the centrality of gender-based violence in the spread of HIV/AIDS has led to many educational efforts to address it. The particular social values that male teachers hold around gender-based violence have been less examined. By focusing on African male teachers' understandings of gender-based violence, this paper highlights the…
Descriptors: Violence, Foreign Countries, Social Values, Males
Curry, Kathy S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative phenomenological study used a modified Groenewald's five steps method with semi-structured, recorded, and transcribed interviews to focus on the underrepresentation of females in science-related careers. The study explored the lived experiences of a purposive sample of 25 senior female college students attending a college in…
Descriptors: Science Careers, Females, Disproportionate Representation, College Students
Naseem, M. Ayaz – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
"Education and Gendered Citizenship in Pakistan" challenges the uncritical use of the long held dictum of the development discourse that education empowers women. Situated in the post-structuralist feminist position, it argues that in its current state the educational discourse in Pakistan actually disempowers women. Through a systematic…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Females, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
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Gerstl-Pepin, Cynthia; Liang, Guodong – Journal of School Public Relations, 2010
This article examines media coverage of a high school Native American mascot controversy. Discourse analysis of media documents and artifacts was utilized to explore how the issue was socially constructed for public consumption. Critical race feminism was used as a framework to examine how media discourses can oversimplify the complex interaction…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Group Unity, Human Body, American Indians
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Pelak, Cynthia Fabrizio – Sociology of Education, 2008
This research examines the phenomenon of sexist naming of women's athletic teams at four-year colleges and universities in the southern United States. Drawing on theoretical and methodological insights from feminist scholarship on gender and sports, gendered language, and intersecting systems of race and gender inequalities, the author analyzes…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Physical Activities, Females, Athletes
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Armstrong, Victoria – Gender and Education, 2008
Drawing on empirical data, this paper examines gender issues around the use of digital technologies for music composition. Increased investment in digital music technologies in music classrooms in the United Kingdom has produced a situation whereby "composition" has become synonymous with "music technology suite". While this…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Gender Issues, Music Education, Music
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Sharp, Elizabeth A.; SoRelle-Miner, Danielle; Bermudez, Judith M.; Walker, Maria – Family Relations, 2008
The purpose of this study was to explore women students' experiences and reactions to a core Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) class cross-listed with Women's Studies (WS). Using 6 focus groups with 22 women, we found that the course increased "awareness of gender" (Theme A) but was limited partially because of patriarchical beliefs,…
Descriptors: Females, Focus Groups, Gender Discrimination, Gender Bias
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Ward, LaWanda – New Directions for Higher Education, 2008
Studies have documented the increased number of women faculty in the academy; however in areas that are historically male dominated--law, medicine, and engineering--the numbers remain dismal. This article describes the real situation of female professors in the academic disciplines of law, medicine, and engineering. This article also provides…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Females, Medicine, Engineering Education
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