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California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2006
Since the passage of Title IX in 1972--a landmark federal sex equity law--enforcement efforts have primarily focused on creating equity for females, based on studies showing them lagging in access and opportunity. But in recent years, concern has been rising about gender gaps that affect males--including an increasingly visible gender gap in…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Higher Education, Sex Fairness, Equal Education
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Fischer, Ann R.; Holz, Kenna Bolton – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2007
In the spirit of counseling psychology's social justice mission (e.g., L. A. Goodman, B. Liang, J. E. Helms, R. E. Latta, E. Sparks, & S. R. Weintraub, 2004), the authors examined perceptions of discrimination against women as related to women's views of the group women, their views of themselves as individuals, and their psychological…
Descriptors: Females, Path Analysis, Justice, Depression (Psychology)
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Gannon, Susanne – Learning, Media and Technology, 2007
This paper brings learning, mass media and technology together in a critical analysis of advertising and its gendered implications in terms of women's desires and investments in technology. It uses two advertisements for laptop computers that appeared in the same weekend news magazine as an analytical opportunity to examine collisions and…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Females, Criticism, Computers
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Kean, Hilda – Gender and Education, 2007
In this article, the author shares her views on the collected works on women suffrage from 1920-1930, which were collated by the activists at National Federation of Women Teachers (NFWT). She relates how she had been impressed by the NFWT activists' organizational capacity to coordinate 70 identically worded motions in support of women's suffrage,…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Activism, Women Faculty
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Boeckmann, Robert J.; Feather, N. T. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2007
Views of a selection committee's decision to promote a woman over a man on the basis of affirmative action were studied in a random sample of Australians (118 men and 111 women). The relations between perceptions of workplace gender discrimination, feelings of collective responsibility and guilt for discrimination, and judgments of entitlement to…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Females, Justice, Gender Differences
Malzer, Maris; Popovic, Milica; Striedinger, Angelika; Bjorklund, Karin; Olsson, Anna-Clara; Elstad, Linda; Brus, Sanja; Stark, Kat; Stojanovic, Marko; Scholz, Christine – European Students' Union (NJ1), 2009
"Tolerance is not enough, discrimination must be fought" is what ESU staff stated in their Seminar on Equality in London, last May. Following their seminar, they decided to provide members with more practical tools to fight discrimination in higher education. This handbook aims at as part of that strategy. Focusing on several issues that…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Immigrants, Best Practices, Sexual Orientation
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Ohan, Jeneva L.; Visser, Troy A. W. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
This study addressed why girls are less likely to be referred for mental health services for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than boys. Ninety-six parents of children with elevated ADHD symptoms and 140 elementary school teachers read vignettes about children with ADHD. Half of the participants read vignettes with boys' names, and…
Descriptors: Health Services, Females, Mental Health Programs, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Gouin, Rachel – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2009
This article outlines, critiques, and revises Griff Foley's analytical framework for the study of informal learning in social action. This reformulation is prompted by the author's own research on young women's experiences and learning in social struggle, and by the need to take into account the interdependence of systems of domination underlying…
Descriptors: Feminism, Informal Education, Social Action, Social Justice
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Stengel, Barbara – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2008
This essay is a response to Barbara Applebaum's essay, "Engaging Student Disengagement: Resistance or Disagreement?" in which Applebaum explores privileged university students' "disengagement" when asked to confront institutionalized oppression. Applebaum analyzes and recommends Lynn Weber Cannon's rules for classroom discourse…
Descriptors: Advantaged, College Students, Classroom Communication, Power Structure
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Mitts, Charles R. – Journal of Technology Education, 2008
Society is increasingly dominated by rapidly evolving systems of technology. The goal of technology education, as an academic component of public education, is to ensure that students become "technologically literate" members of society who are able to understand, access, use, manage, and control these technological systems.…
Descriptors: Social Status, Sex Fairness, Technology Education, Gender Bias
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Blumberg, Rae Lesser – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
Gender bias in textbooks (GBIT) is a low-profile education issue, given the 72,000,000 children who still have no access to schooling, but this article argues that GBIT is: (1) an important, (2) near-universal, (3) remarkably uniform, (4) quite persistent but (5) virtually invisible obstacle on the road to gender equality in education--an obstacle…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Gender Bias
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Lawoko, Stephen – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2008
Attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV) were compared between Zambian and Kenyan men on sociodemographic, attitudinal, and structural predictors of such attitudes. Data were retrieved from the latest Demographic and Health Surveys in each country. The results showed that many men in Zambia (71%) and Kenya (68%) justified IPV to punish a…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Access to Information, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Zhang, Liang – Review of Higher Education, 2008
Using a nationally representative sample of baccalaureate graduates from 1993 (B&B 93/97/03), I explore factors that contribute to the gender and racial gap in earnings among recent college graduate. Results indicate that college major remains the most significant factor in accounting for the gender gap in pay. Female graduates are still left…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Family Income, College Graduates, Socioeconomic Background
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Yoder, Janice D.; Christopher, Jessica; Holmes, Jeffrey D. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2008
Content analyses of television advertising document the ubiquity of traditional images of women, yet few studies have explored their impact. One noteworthy exception is the experiment by Geis, Brown, Jennings, and Porter (1984). These researchers found that the achievement aspirations of controls and women exposed to traditional images were lower…
Descriptors: Scripts, Television Commercials, Females, Gender Discrimination
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Miyajima, Tomomi – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2008
This study explores gender inequality in the occupational culture of Japanese high school teachers with special focus on women teachers' resistance to gender-biased practices. It examines the effectiveness of official and informal teacher training programmes in raising awareness of gender issues. Through an ethnographic case study conducted in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Work Environment, Organizational Culture
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