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Minnotte, Krista Lynn; Cook, Alison; Minnotte, Michael C. – Journal of Family Issues, 2010
This study examines how industry and occupation sex segregation are related to the use of flexible scheduling policies and perceptions of the career repercussions of using such policies. The analysis is performed on data from the 2002 National Study of the Changing Workforce (N = 2,810). Findings suggest that the percentage of women per industry…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Scheduling, Females, Industry
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Rao, Nitya – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
Schooling is not a benign process, rather the choice of schooling is often an opportunity for marginalised groups to creatively express particular sets of values in an attempt to gain distinction. Educational attainments carry the potential to open up a range of employment opportunities, but even if these options fail due to structural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Access to Education, Equal Education
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Speizer, Ilene S. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This study examines intimate partner violence (IPV) attitudes and experience among women and men in Uganda to inform IPV-prevention programs in the region. Nationally representative population-based data from women aged 15 to 49 and men aged 15 to 54 were collected between May and October 2006 as part of the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey.…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Spouses, Marriage, Females
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Agho, Jude; Oseghale, Francis – Education, 2008
Feminism, especially the womanist brand, has been a very popular critical tool that most critics, men and women alike, have employed in their critical appraisal of African literary works. This is decidedly a very fertile area of contemporary scholarship. The emergence of this critical methodology in the African context stems from the perceived…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, African Culture, Foreign Countries
Miller, Claire M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Women currently represent the largest number of teachers in the United States but remain underrepresented in the superintendent position. This suggests that the superintendency has been influenced by patriarchy. If women are to break through the barriers that prevent them from attaining a superintendency, we will need to understand the social…
Descriptors: Females, Sex Role, Gender Differences, Women Administrators
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Voyles, Martha M.; Fossum, Tim; Haller, Susan – Science Education Review, 2009
This study examines teacher interactions with boys and girls in single-gender technology classes. We analyzed transcripts of videotapes of instruction, interviews with the teachers and students, student questionnaires, and final robot programs. Girls and boys differed in a number of ways, and teachers explained their differing interactions with…
Descriptors: Females, Interviews, Questionnaires, Males
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McDermid, Jane – History of Education, 2009
Although the number of women who served on Scotland's school boards (1873-1918) was not large, they made the case for female representation on public bodies both through their electoral campaigns and their record of office. Many were simultaneously active on parish and town councils and in feminist causes, with a few in the labour movement from…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Females, Elections, Foreign Countries
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Ladda, Shawn – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2009
From writing the first Guidebooks for hockey, soccer, swimming, track and field, and basketball, to lobbying Congress to strive for equity and equal opportunities for girls, the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS) has been and continues to be the beacon in education to advance fairness and equity in sports. As NAGWS enters…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Physical Education, Professional Associations, Organizational Effectiveness
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Bohórquez Suárez, Ingrid Liliana; Gómez Sará, Mary Mily; Medina Mosquera, Sindy Lorena – HOW, 2011
This study analyzes what characterizes the negotiations of seventh graders at a public school in Bogotá when working in pairs to develop speaking tasks in EFL classes. The inquiry is a descriptive case study that follows the qualitative paradigm. As a result of analyzing the data, we obtained four consecutive steps that characterize students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Cooperative Learning
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Kim, Jongyoung – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
This study aims to understand Korean students' motivations for studying in US graduate schools. For this purpose, I conducted in-depth interviews with 50 Korean graduate students who were enrolled in a research-centered US university at the time of the interview. In these interviews, I sought to understand how their motivations are connected not…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Social Class, Global Education
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Johnson, Danielle – Voices from the Middle, 2010
Attempting discussions about social justice issues in a junior high classroom can be a daunting but critical task. Uncertainty about how to get conversations started, along with fear about where such talk might lead, can make the task easy to dismiss. In this paper, one teacher tells her story of inviting rich discussion about a variety of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Reading Improvement, Grade 9, Gender Bias
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White, Nereda – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2010
In this article, I reflect on my experiences as an Indigenous woman researcher coming to grips with colonialism through a post-colonialism lens. I also discuss a study which examines the leadership journey of a group of Indigenous Australian women. The research, which includes an auto-ethnographic approach, was guided by an Indigenous worldview…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Females, Gender Bias
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Mackay, James; Parkinson, Jean – Gender and Education, 2010
This article considers the relationship between gender and self-efficacy in teacher trainees engaged in an electricity-related design and construction task. Quantitative data (examination scores, task assessment, and questionnaire) and qualitative data (interviews and written student reflections) were collected. There is a gender bias in student…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Disadvantaged Schools, Self Efficacy, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Early, Diane M.; Iruka, Iheoma U.; Ritchie, Sharon; Barbarin, Oscar A.; Winn, Donna-Marie C.; Crawford, Gisele M.; Frome, Pamela M.; Clifford, Richard M.; Burchinal, Margaret; Howes, Carollee; Bryant, Donna M.; Pianta, Robert C. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2010
The current paper considers how children spend their time in state-funded pre-kindergarten programs and how time use relates to ethnicity, gender, and family income, based on the assumption that how time is spent in pre-kindergarten is relevant for the programs' success in narrowing achievement gaps. Classroom observations of 2061 children in 652…
Descriptors: African American Children, Ethnicity, Family Income, Preschool Education
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Chapleau, Kristine M.; Oswald, Debra L.; Russell, Brenda L. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2008
This study investigates the structure of Struckman-Johnson and Struckman-Johnson's Male Rape Myth Scale, examines gender differences in rape myth acceptance, and explores the underlying ideologies that facilitate male rape myth acceptance. A three-factor model, with rape myths regarding Trauma, Blame, and Denial as separate subscales, is the best…
Descriptors: Males, Rape, Victims of Crime, Measures (Individuals)
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