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Westbrook, Laurel – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2009
LGBT campus resources are vital for many LGBT college students' wellbeing and academic success. In this article, I explore what factors may cause different groups under the LGBT umbrella to be included in or excluded from use of LGBT campus resources. I examine patterns of participation at two college campuses: one where women wanted access to…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Gender Discrimination, Gender Differences
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Liu, Xiaoyi – Education Journal, 2009
The rise of women's modern schooling in late Qing China was deemed to be, by the historical trend of modern China, a progress that coincided with China's modernization and national self-strengthening movement after the humiliating defeat of the Opium War. This article is an examination of this process from 1840 to 1911, which had undergone three…
Descriptors: Females, Boarding Schools, Foreign Countries, Sex Role
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Schoening, Anne M. – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2009
Women in 2009 are earning advanced degrees in record numbers, yet they are shying away from careers in higher education. The demands of motherhood, coupled with a lack of family friendly policies in the academic workplace make life in the academy less desirable for a new generation of female scholars. The purpose of this article is to explore the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Women Faculty, Females, Work Environment
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Grummell, Bernie; Devine, Dympna; Lynch, Kathleen – Gender and Education, 2009
While there has always been a profound indifference to the affective domain in formal education, given its Cartesian allegiance to the development of the rational autonomous subject, this indifference to the emotional subject is intensifying with the glorification of performativity. As higher education is especially subject to performance…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Females, Psychological Patterns, Educational Administration
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Girard, Tulay; Pinar, Musa – International Journal of Educational Management, 2009
Purpose: This study aims to examine the potential effects of the gender similarity between the presenter and evaluator on the presentation evaluation scores obtained with an evaluation form. Design/methodology/approach: The data were collected from marketing students at two universities in the USA. A rubric and separate survey instrument were used…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Student Attitudes, Evaluation Criteria, Grading
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Joeckel, Samuel; Chesnes, Thomas – Christian Higher Education, 2009
A lack of diversity has long troubled institutions within the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU). While the focus on this issue has often been on race and ethnicity, less work has been conducted on gender diversity and equity. Using a 2007 survey of over 1,900 professors who teach at institutions belonging to the CCCU, this…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Sex Fairness, Gender Bias, Christianity
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Connell, Raewyn – Gender and Education, 2010
A world policy agenda for gender equality in education now exists, realising the idea of earlier reformers such as Kartini. This agenda, however, makes assumptions that are strongly contested by research and policy debates in national forums. This essay urges shifting the framework of gender analysis to global scale. It outlines what is involved…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Social Justice, Gender Bias, Gender Issues
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Woszczynski, Amy B.; Shade, Sherri – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2010
Much prior research has examined the dearth of women in the IT industry. The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of women in IT within the context of information security and assurance. This paper describes results from a study of a relatively new career path to see if there are female-friendly opportunities that have not existed…
Descriptors: Females, Computer Security, Gender Bias, Disproportionate Representation
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Sperandio, Jill; Kagoda, Alice Merab – International Journal of Educational Management, 2010
Purpose: The under-representation of women in the leadership of secondary schooling is a problem common to many developing countries, raising issues of social justice and sustainable development. It has its roots in societal understandings about leadership, the schooling and career aspirations of girls, the organizational characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Females, Coeducation, Secondary School Teachers
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Riddell, Sheila; Tett, Lyn – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2010
This paper draws on findings from a research project funded by the Scottish Executive which analysed the gender balance in teaching and explored the underlying reasons for the decline in the number and proportion of men, particularly in secondary schools. As in other developed countries, such as Australia, the USA and Canada, the proportion of men…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Males
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Kim, Kyung Mee – Disability & Society, 2010
Since the late 1990s disabled women's advocacy organizations have fought against oppression and have made great strides in Korea. This paper aims to describe the accomplishments, challenges and future directions of disabled women's advocacy organizations in Korea. A qualitative design was employed to explore disabled women's perspectives.…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Advocacy
Valenziano, Laura – Online Submission, 2008
The issues of equity and access are becoming increasingly important as the workforce becomes diversified. As the number of minority groups in the ranks of organizations grows, there is a need to examine the issues related to equity and access from a perspective that strives for equality, e.g. feminist theory. This paper examines feminism's…
Descriptors: Feminism, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Minority Groups
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Auwarter, Amy E.; Aruguete, Mara S. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2008
The present study experimentally examined how counselor perceptions of hypothetical students are affected by student gender and socioeconomic status (SES). Results showed that counselors perceive students from low SES backgrounds as having less promising futures and lower math abilities. Counselors also rated female students as lower in math…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Counselor Training, School Counselors, Counselor Attitudes
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Eriksen, Karen; Kress, Victoria E. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2008
Concerns have been raised related to the intersection of gender and diagnosis, particularly with respect to biases in diagnoses made according to the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (4th ed., text rev.; American Psychiatric Association, 2000). The authors review the literature on the prevalence of diagnoses by gender, sex…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Clinical Diagnosis, Sex Fairness, Gender Bias
Reyes, Rosanna A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the educational trajectories of academically resilient first-generation Latinas in college. More specifically, the study focused on the factors that led them to become academically successful. The researcher of this study conducted a narrative inquiry analysis of the K-16 educational trajectories of five academically resilient…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students, Females
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