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Marks, Gary N. – Social Forces, 2009
Modernization theory argues that, as societies industrialize and further develop, the influence of social background and other ascribed characteristics on educational and socioeconomic outcomes declines, while achievement in the education system becomes more important. The purpose of this research is to investigate propositions derived from…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Background
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Bornmann, Lutz; Mutz, Rudiger; Daniel, Hans-Dieter; O'Mara, Alison – Review of Educational Research, 2009
Peer review is valued in higher education, but also widely criticized in terms of potential biases, particularly gender. We evaluate gender differences in peer reviews of grant applications, extending Bornmann, Mutz, and Daniel's meta-analyses that reported small gender differences in favor of men (d = 0.04), but a substantial heterogeneity in…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Gender Differences, Grants, Peer Evaluation
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Connell, Catherine; Elliott, Sinikka – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2009
This article reviews the literature on the roles that schools, peers, and parents play in young people's sexuality education. We argue that the sexuality education children receive is far from just the facts; rather, it is an education in the maintenance of inequality. Sexuality education, as it is currently conceived, includes implicit and…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Literature Reviews, School Role
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Street, Amy E.; Gradus, Jaimie L.; Stafford, Jane; Kelly, Kacie – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2007
The goal of this investigation was to examine gender differences in experiences of sexual harassment during military service and the negative mental health symptoms associated with these experiences. Female (n = 2,319) and male (n = 1,627) former reservists were surveyed about sexual harassment during their military service and current mental…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Military Service, Gender Differences, Sexual Harassment
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Bornstein, Brian H.; Kaplan, Debra L.; Perry, Andrea R. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2007
Objective: The purpose was to explore the effects of victim and perpetrator gender, type of abuse, and victim-perpetrator relationship on university students' and non-students' perceptions of different kinds of child abuse. Method: One hundred and ninety-nine participants (including university students and non-student adults) evaluated each of 24…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Stereotypes
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Pomerantz, Shauna – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2007
In this article I explore the gendered assumptions in the new generation of dress codes that have swept through North American schools in response to how girls are dressing these days. Through a feminist poststructural examination of a particular case in Langley, British Columbia, I locate three contradictory discourses in one school's dress code…
Descriptors: Females, Dress Codes, Foreign Countries, Sexuality
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Keddie, Amanda; Mills, Carmen; Mills, Martin – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2008
This article explores the complex struggles associated with intersections of class, rurality and masculinity, and the ways in which such intersections work to preserve a gendered status quo within and beyond school communities in Australia. Drawing on the stories of Monica and Phoebe, two teachers who understand schooling as a site of…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Social Class, Rural Schools, Foreign Countries
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Jessup-Anger, Jody E. – Journal of College Student Development, 2008
Increasingly, global understanding is part of the core mission of institutions of higher education. Many colleges and universities recognize the need for globally literate citizens to meet the demands of an increasingly interdependent world and see study abroad as a way to develop students' cross-cultural skills. The focus of this study is on…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Undergraduate Students, Sexual Identity, Sex Role
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Turpin, Katherine – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2008
The Iliff School of Theology established a justice and peace concentration within its curriculum to respond to the challenges of racism, class and economic exploitation, sexism, and militarism by fostering social analysis and attending to the contributions of religious thought and resources to the struggles of social change. Within an institution…
Descriptors: Theological Education, Course Content, Peace, Justice
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Leaper, Campbell; Brown, Christia Spears – Child Development, 2008
This study investigated predictors of adolescent girls' experiences with sexism and feminism. Girls (N = 600; M = 15.1 years, range = 12-18), of varied socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds, completed surveys of personal experiences with sexual harassment, academic sexism (regarding science, math, and computer technology), and athletics. Most girls…
Descriptors: Feminism, Sexual Harassment, Females, Sexual Identity
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Frawley, Timothy J. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2008
Children's perceptions of gender are greatly influenced by the illustrations/text they encounter in picture books. While transacting with authentic literature, children build gender schema that guide processing of subsequent information. This knowledge can bias memory to a point where children misremember or distort information to make it fit…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Gender Bias
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Sherblom, Stephen – Journal of Moral Education, 2008
The "care challenge" to moral psychology, articulated in the justice-care debate, has been borne out in a number of ways. Empirically, claims regarding gender difference in use of justice and care reasoning, gender bias claims regarding early forms of Kohlberg's scoring manual and claims regarding the centrality of cultural conceptions of…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Psychology, Social Scientists, Gender Differences
Iddrisu, Vannetta Bailey – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examines the educational persistence of women of African descent (WOAD) in pursuit of a doctorate degree at universities in the southeastern United States. WOAD are women of African ancestry born outside the African continent. These women are heirs to an inner dogged determination and spirit to survive despite all odds (Pulliam, 2003,…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Graduate Students, Females, Academic Persistence
Boyd, Tammy; Cintron, Rosa; Alexander-Snow, Mia – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
Much has been written about the trials and tribulations of junior tenure-track faculty; much has also been written about the difficulties faced by women and minority faculty. However, there is very little research about the experiences of minority women faculty who are also tenure-earning, but untenured; what little research does exist tends to…
Descriptors: Tenure, Women Faculty, Females, Personal Narratives
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2009
In the past few decades there has been an increasing interest in the different educational experiences, success and eventual outcomes that prevail for males and females. Women often excel at school, however men often earn more and are more likely to hold positions of power in political and economic life. Looking at these inequalities, government…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Educational Experience, Gender Differences
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