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Opini, Bathseba M. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2008
This paper examines the strengths and limitations of the Ontarians with Disabilities Act (ODA) accessibility plan prepared by one post-secondary education institution in Ontario, Canada, during the 2004/05 academic year. The paper focuses on ways the intersectionality between disability and gender is not voiced in the plan and its implications for…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Gender Discrimination, Gender Bias
Wilson, Marnie; Gadbois, Shannon; Nichol, Kathleen – Canadian Journal of Education, 2008
This article examined issues and implications associated with gender parity in the professoriate. The findings, based on the results from one Canadian institution's most recent women's committee report, emphasize the importance of monitoring progress toward gender parity by examining potential indicators of gender imbalances such as gender…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Gender Bias
Kendrick, Maureen; Jones, Shelley – Canadian Journal of Education, 2008
This Ugandan-based study examined how visual modes of communication provide insights into girls' perceptions of literacy, and open broader dialogues on literacy, women, and development. Twenty-nine primary school girls used drawing and 15 secondary school girls used photography to depict local literacy practices in relation to their own lives and…
Descriptors: Photography, Females, Visual Perception, Rural Areas
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Fenwick, Tara – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2008
This article explores processes and possibilities for critical learning in the workplace, with a focus on workers laboring in what are often exploitive and dehumanizing conditions. The argument is based on a study of work-life learning of women, mostly new immigrants, employed long-term at an Alberta garment manufacturing plant. It is argued that…
Descriptors: Industry, Females, Manufacturing, Foreign Countries
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Scott, Kristyn A.; Brown, Douglas J. – Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2006
In the current paper we investigate whether gender affects the encoding of leadership behavior. In three studies we found evidence that perceivers had difficulty encoding leadership behaviors into their underlying prototypical leadership traits when the behavior implied an agentic trait and the behavior was enacted by a female. Using a lexical…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Gender Bias, Leadership, Females
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Schmaling, Karen B. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
The underrepresentation of women in leadership positions in higher education is well documented. There are a number of potential reasons for this gender disparity, but gender discrimination appears to be an important maintenance factor. The paper proposes a taxonomy of gender microaggressions, which are forms of gender discrimination, to help…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Disproportionate Representation, Higher Education
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Gardiner, Maria; Tiggemann, Marika; Kearns, Hugh; Marshall, Kelly – Higher Education Research and Development, 2007
This paper discusses and comprehensively evaluates a mentoring scheme for junior female academics. The program aimed to address the under-representation of women in senior positions by increasing participation in networks and improving women's research performance. A multifaceted, longitudinal design, including a control group, was used to…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Mentors, Women Faculty, Females
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Fitzgerald, Tanya – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2007
The historiography of women's higher education has almost exclusively charted women's admission to universities, institutional responses to increasing numbers of women students and women's struggles to claim a presence as academics and administrators. Less attention has however been paid to the history and agency of women professors who were…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Females, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Xiao, Hui – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This project stands at the juncture of modern Chinese literature, post-socialist studies, cultural history of divorce, and critical studies about global middle-class cultures. Employing analytical tools mainly from literary studies, cultural studies and feminist theories, I examine stories, novels, films and TV dramas about divorce produced…
Descriptors: Divorce, Foreign Countries, Television, Films
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Meredith, Corine Cadle – Gifted and Talented International, 2009
This article illuminates the current status of our understanding regarding the academic and social-emotional needs of gifted, early adolescent females in the United States. A synthesis of both theoretical and empirical studies addresses two foundational questions. First, how do we describe the unique population of gifted, female, adolescent…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Traditional Schools, Single Sex Schools, Academically Gifted
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Townsend, Barbara K. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2009
This paper explores the issues of what would constitute a positive organizational climate for women and minorities within the community college setting and ways in which such a climate might be achieved. It first describes some traditional or standard measures of a positive organizational climate for women and minorities and then evaluates how…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Females, Organizational Climate, Minority Groups
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Giuffre, Patti; Anderson, Cynthia; Bird, Sharon – Teaching Sociology, 2008
This paper describes two teaching strategies from our workshop, "Teaching the Sociology of Gender and Work," that can help students understand the mechanisms and consequences of workplace gender inequality at the macro- and micro-levels. Cynthia Anderson's class project uses wage and sex composition data that allows students to learn actively how…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Quality of Working Life, Gender Bias, Sociology
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Rankin, Bruce H.; Aytac, Isik A. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2008
Previous research highlights the continuing relevance of family culture in explaining educational inequalities in Turkey, especially patriarchal beliefs and practices that discourage investment in the education of girls. We extend that research by introducing two much-debated, but empirically untested, aspects of family culture--parental…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Females, Family Life, Educational Attainment
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Arms, Emily; Bickett, Jill; Graf, Victoria – Gender and Education, 2008
While research has documented the predominance of boys in US special education programmes, similar attention to girls' under-representation has been rare. Recent research suggests that there may be just as many girls in need of these services, but for various reasons they are less likely to be identified through the referral process. Girls who…
Descriptors: Females, Content Analysis, Referral, Gender Bias
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Kniveton, Bromley H. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2008
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to investigate whether those involved with recruitment/selection (RS) react differently towards male and female trainee managers. Design/methodology/approach: Measures of the perceptions towards trainee managers were collected from 440 managers and professionals involved in recruitment/selection (RS). Findings: It…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Trainees, Gender Differences, Gender Bias
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