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Tamara Yakaboski – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2010
The single-parent undergraduate is an underserved student population who face organizational barriers and negative climates. These barriers negatively impact their collegiate experience and could influence retention. This research uses feminist-informed focus groups to explore the single-parent undergraduate experience and posit suggestions for…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Organizational Change, One Parent Family, Mothers
Ferri, Beth A.; Connor, David J. – Gender and Education, 2010
Recent criticism of the over-representation of minority students in special education do not adequately account for gender, despite the fact that urban special education classrooms in the USA are largely populated by young men of colour. In fact, we know very little about how being female shapes the experiences and understandings of young women of…
Descriptors: Females, Minority Groups, Special Education, Working Class
Tahiraj, Iliriana – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2010
Understanding the role of women in the development of society generally and in education in particular is a critically important dimension of inclusive thinking. Understanding the challenges confronting women in Kosovo as they strive to be full partners in a post-conflict society which is also an emerging democracy is another substantial dimension…
Descriptors: Females, Democracy, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues
de Wet, Carol B. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
Faculty concerns over gender inequities surfaced in 2005-2006 at Franklin & Marshall College after new policies relating to childbirth and adoption and tenure clock stoppage were instituted two years prior. These structural changes were empowering and gave women faculty a sense that other meaningful changes were achievable, leading to renewed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Women Faculty, Sex Fairness, Administrative Policy
Bhat, Bilal Ahmad – Educational Research and Reviews, 2010
In all societies, boys and girls are assigned different societal roles and experience different perspectives of life as a result of their being male or female. Such differences have a gigantic impact on their lives. The importance of gender perspective is very important in understanding the convolution of child labour. Gender, as opposed to sex,…
Descriptors: Females, Well Being, Attendance, Child Labor
Chabaya, Owence; Rembe, Symphorosa; Wadesango, Newman – South African Journal of Education, 2009
We investigated and analysed the factors that women teachers consider as barriers to their advancement to headship positions in Zimbabwean primary schools. Specifically, we sought to identify the factors perceived by women school heads to be causes of persistent under-representation of women in school headship positions. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Females, Women Administrators
Kolb, C. Steven – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to broadly examine and analyze gender differences in the leadership styles of Texas public school superintendents by analyzing their subordinates' responses on Bolman and Deal's (1991) Leadership Orientations (Other) survey. Approximately 25% (n = 484) of the high-ranking administrators within the 198 selected school…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Leadership Effectiveness, Gender Differences, Gender Bias
Hassett, Kristen Spring – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Gender stereotypes abound in materials (AAUW, 1992; Kratovil & Bailey, 1986; Shafer & Shevitz, 2001), perceptions/expectations (AAUW; Stinnett, Bull, Koonce, & Aldridge, 1999), and vocational training (AAUW; Arms, Bickett, & Graf, 2008; Hanson & Smith, 2001). Achievement measures indicate that girls may be doing better than boys (Corbett, Hill, &…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Suburban Schools, Males, Sex Stereotypes
French, Judith C. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The initiative to increase highly qualified college STEM graduates coupled with the phrase "science for all" pushed by standards-based reform has opened an avenue for science education research. How can we increase students' interests in science careers? Specifically, do marginalized groups require differing instructional approaches to increase…
Descriptors: Science Careers, Science Interests, Role Models, Mentors
Kleinman, Sherryl; Copp, Martha – Teaching Sociology, 2009
Students share folk beliefs that make it difficult for them to understand inequality, especially the harmful consequences of social practices they routinely engage in, are attached to, and take for granted. Four of these beliefs include: (a) harm is direct, extreme, and the product of an individual's intentions; (2) harm is the product of the…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Social Justice, Consciousness Raising, Sociology
Duke, Thomas Scott; McCarthy, Kathrin W. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2009
We reviewed 31 articles that explored issues related to gender and sexuality in early childhood education (ECE) settings. This body of literature suggests that ECE programs and elementary schools often reinforce the homophobia, heterosexism, and sexism that characterize contemporary U.S. society. A number of the articles described strategies that…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Homosexuality
Hahm, Hyeouk Chris; Adkins, Chris – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2009
In the United States, the interplay of racism, sexism, and acculturation creates psychological and social stressors that may affect the development of positive ethnic/sexual identities among Asian and Pacific Islander (API) adolescents. This article proposes a new model of identity formation theory for API gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender…
Descriptors: Pacific Islanders, Acculturation, Homosexuality, Gender Bias
Haworth, Claire M. A.; Dale, Philip S.; Plomin, Robert – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2009
Background: Are there sex differences in the etiology of high performance in science in childhood that could contribute to the under-representation of women in scientific careers? In this study the relative contributions of genetic and environmental influences on high performance in science in both boys and girls were assessed using standard twin…
Descriptors: Genetics, Twins, Females, Etiology
Danielsson, Anna Teresia; Linder, Cedric – Gender and Education, 2009
Drawing on a study that explores university students' experiences of doing laboratory work in physics, this article outlines a proposed conceptual framework for extending the exploration of the gendered experience of learning. In this framework situated cognition and post-structural gender theory are merged together. By drawing on data that aim at…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Laboratories, Teaching Methods, College Science
Drudy, Sheelagh – Gender and Education, 2008
The teaching of young children has long been dominated by women. This global phenomenon is firmly rooted in issues relating to economic development, urbanisation, the position of women in society, cultural definitions of masculinity and the value of children and childcare. There have been expressions of concern by the media, by government…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teaching (Occupation), Females, Disproportionate Representation