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Lindhorst, Taryn; Tajima, Emiko – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2008
Survey research in the field of intimate partner violence is notably lacking in its attention to contextual factors. Early measures of intimate partner violence focused on simple counts of behaviors, yet attention to broader contextual factors remains limited. Contextual factors not only shape what behaviors are defined as intimate partner…
Descriptors: Aggression, Family Violence, Surveys, Context Effect
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Hausman, Patricia – Academic Questions, 2008
The author scrutinizes the National Academy of Sciences report "Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering" and its dangerous call to place the sciences under the sledgehammer of Title IX. Her findings: A one-sided, inaccurate, and internally contradictory report prepared by a…
Descriptors: Sciences, Science Education, Career Choice, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Salazar, Carmen F.; Casto, Challon – Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 2008
The authors propose the Moving From Victim to Survivor of Cultural Violence model, using the stages of D. W. Sue and D. Sue's (1999) Racial/Cultural Identity Development model. This conceptual model describes the process of first overcoming internalized sexism, domestic abuse, sexual harassment, rape, and other forms of oppression and then healing…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Sexual Harassment, Victims of Crime, Gender Bias
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Hong, Zuway-R.; Lin, Huann-shyang; Lawrenz, Frances – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
This study investigated the efficacy of extracurricular science intervention in promoting students' science learning performance and attitudes toward science. The Junior High School Student Questionnaire (JSSQ) was used to measure attitudes toward science, sexist attitudes and perceptions of the classroom learning environment. Twenty-eight eighth…
Descriptors: Intervention, Student Attitudes, One Parent Family, Program Effectiveness
Saleem, Mohammed M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This exploratory study of the implementation of computer technology in an American Islamic private school leveraged the case study methodology and ethnographic methods informed by symbolic interactionism and the framework of the Muslim Diaspora. The study focused on describing the implementation of computer technology and identifying the…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Muslims, Public Schools, Islam
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Carlile, Anna – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2009
Focussing on narratives collected during a two year participant observation research project in the children's services department of an urban local authority, this article addresses the intersection between incidents of permanent exclusion from school and assumptions made on the basis of a young person's gender. The article considers gendered…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Expulsion, Family Violence, Participant Observation
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Richardson, Elaine – Gender and Education, 2009
Hegemonic discourses authorise certain ways of being, knowing, and doing. We internalise or appropriate images, patterns, and words from the social activities in which we have participated. Race, gender, sexuality, age, education, class are among aspects of identity (social constructions) that affect our language and literacy acquisition, the way…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Ideology, Sexuality
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Tracy, Paul E.; Kempf-Leonard, Kimberly; Abramoske-James, Stephanie – Crime & Delinquency, 2009
This article traces the historical coverage of the gender issue in the criminological literature. It also provides contemporary empirical evidence about differences and similarities between girls and boys with respect to juvenile crime and to processing by the juvenile justice system, by analyzing several national juvenile crime data series, all…
Descriptors: Juvenile Courts, Juvenile Justice, Gender Issues, Gender Differences
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Rudman, Laurie A.; Fairchild, Kimberly – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2007
Three studies examined the predictive utility of heterosexual relationship concerns vis-a-vis support for feminism. Study 1 showed that beauty is perceived to be at odds with feminism, for both genders. The stereotype that feminists are unattractive was robust, but fully accounted for by romance-related attributions. Moreover, more attractive…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Stereotypes, Females, Feminism
Bloom, Lynn Z. – Composition Studies, 2007
The author never had a formal mentor. Indeed, when people ask her who was her mentor and she says "No one," they react with shock. How could that be? Yet neither the concept nor the reality were available to her as a grad student at Michigan 1957-62, territory largely off-limits to women at the time. Nevertheless, having snuck in under the cover…
Descriptors: Mentors, Women Faculty, Personal Narratives, Graduate Students
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DeMarni Cromer, Lisa; Freyd, Jennifer J. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2007
This vignette study investigated factors that influence believing child sexual abuse disclosures. College student participants (N = 318) in a university human subject pool completed measures about their own trauma history and responded to questions about sexist attitudes. Participants then read vignettes in which an adult disclosed a history of…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Females, Males, Child Abuse
Wang, Xiaojun Grace – Online Submission, 2010
The world has a mixed record towards achieving EFA [Education for All] and the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] in relation to the targets on gender equity in basic education. For researchers and practitioners, this raises the question of which factors influence the processes leading to the improvement of access and quality of girls' education…
Descriptors: Females, Figurative Language, Cultural Awareness, Interaction
Onochie, Okeke Chinedu Ifedi – Online Submission, 2010
The females' relatively low participation in higher education is discussed within the Nigerian society in a way that such issues are discursively placed in often contradictory, as well as extremely complicated contexts. Dominant discussions draw on the interplay between gender and students' performance across subjects, as well as on the influences…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Females, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Cocchiara, Faye K.; Kwesiga, Eileen; Bell, Myrtle P.; Baruch, Yehuda – Career Development International, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the perceptions of US MBA and specialist master's degree alumni to determine the influence that their degree program experiences had on subsequent perceptions of career success. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from 318 alumni MBA and specialist master's degree recipients from a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Graduate Students, Job Satisfaction, College Graduates
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Christopher, Andrew N.; Mull, Melinda S. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2006
To assess the relationship between different facets of conservative ideology and ambivalent sexism, 246 residents of two towns in southern Michigan completed a social dominance orientation scale (SDO), a right-wing authoritarianism scale (RWA), a Protestant work ethic scale (PWE), and the Glick and Fiske (1996) Ambivalent Sexism Inventory via a…
Descriptors: Ideology, Gender Bias, Measures (Individuals), Correlation
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