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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
Jeffries, Cindy A. – Online Submission, 2009
It has become apparent that in recent years the issue of childhood obesity is becoming the number one health risk among children in the United States. Making sure that children participate in daily physical education class is one way to combat the obesity epidemic. The purpose of this action research project was to improve the active participation…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Dance, Sex Stereotypes, Action Research
Jambor, Zoltan Paul – Online Submission, 2009
Korean society has for long been shaped by Confucian ideologies wherein age and gender among other factors predetermine one's position in relation to others among friends, family and society as a whole. Especially the determiners pertaining to age and gender lead to sexism and ageism which in essence encompass the widely spread prejudicial…
Descriptors: Korean Culture, Females, Ideology, Foreign Countries
Winkle-Wagner, Rachelle – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
Racial and gender inequities persist among college students, despite ongoing efforts to combat them. Students of color face alienation, stereotyping, low expectations, and lingering racism even as they actively engage in the academic and social worlds of college life. "The Unchosen Me" examines the experiences of African American collegiate women…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Students, Race, Females
Page, Melanie C.; Bailey, Lucy E.; Van Delinder, Jean – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2009
The under-representation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields is of continuing concern, as is the lack of women in senior positions and leadership roles. During a time of increasing demand for science and engineering enterprise, the lack of women and minorities in these academic disciplines needs to be addressed by…
Descriptors: Females, Disproportionate Representation, Gender Issues, Science Education
Anugwom, Edlyne E. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2009
This paper examines the implication of the growing educational opportunities for women in Nigeria. Although bias has existed from the traditional Nigerian society against women, recent events especially in education reveal a conquering of this deep-rooted prejudice. Enrollment figures particularly in the last ten years show a remarkable bridging…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Females, Labor Market, Foreign Countries
Lapid, Maria; Moutier, Christine; Dunn, Laura; Hammond, Katherine Green; Roberts, Laura Weiss – Academic Psychiatry, 2009
Objective: Awareness of the privileges and limits of one's role as physician, as well as recognition and respect for the patient as a human being, are central to ethical medical practice. The authors were particularly interested in examining the attitudes and perceived needs of psychiatric residents toward education on professional boundaries and…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Physicians, Patients, Ethics
Price, Neil; Knibbs, Sarah – Children & Society, 2009
This review article questions the assumptions at the core of peer education interventions adopted in young people's sexual and reproductive health programmes in developing countries. Peer education is a more complex and problematic approach than its popularity with development agencies and practitioners implies. Its rise to prominence is more…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Health Promotion, Youth, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Allen, Christopher T.; Swan, Suzanne C.; Raghavan, Chitra – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
This study of a predominantly Hispanic sample of 92 male and 140 female college students examines both gender symmetry in intimate partner violence (IPV) and inconsistent relationships found in previous studies between sexist attitudes and IPV. Results indicate that although comparable numbers of men and women perpetrate and are victimized in…
Descriptors: Females, Interpersonal Relationship, Path Analysis, Gender Bias
Whitehead, Kay – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2009
This paper highlights ways in which understandings about masculinity intersected with concepts of vocation, career and character in the life and work of an Australian teacher, Victor Pavia. Firstly, it outlines his vertical career path from teacher to headmaster and then inspector, made possible in a bureaucratised state school system that…
Descriptors: Educational History, Public Schools, Personality Traits, Foreign Countries
Bhana, Deevia; de Lange, Naydene; Mitchell, Claudia – Educational Review, 2009
In South Africa, the centrality of gender-based violence in the spread of HIV/AIDS has led to many educational efforts to address it. The particular social values that male teachers hold around gender-based violence have been less examined. By focusing on African male teachers' understandings of gender-based violence, this paper highlights the…
Descriptors: Violence, Foreign Countries, Social Values, Males
Petersen, Anne Helen – Great Plains Quarterly, 2007
The very first vision of the female form in "Deadwood" is one of ultimate despair: the woman sits alone in the corner of a room, hysterically weeping, her face swollen and bruised with beating. Meanwhile, the other prominent female character of the camp is obviously hopped up on dope, barely tolerating her dude husband as he clamors after gold.…
Descriptors: Females, United States History, Literary Devices, Feminism