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ERIC Number: ED397146
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 6
Abstractor: N/A
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Sex Role Stereotyping: Changes by Program Participants.
New Jersey Equity Research Bulletin, n14 Fall 1995
Programs funded through the federal Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act sex equity set aside are required to provide occupational education in high wage, high skill, and nontraditional careers. This bulletin, one of a series reporting on Perkins Act funding in New Jersey, reports on the effectiveness of displaced homemaker and sex equity programs in changing the sex role stereotyping of participants. Sex role stereotyping is one factor that has contributed to the economic disparity between the genders. Pretest and posttest data were collected from 224 participants, largely female, in displaced homemaker and sex equity programs using the MacDonald Sex Role Inventory. Participants showed some changes in sex role attitudes, with mean posttest scores on the inventory significantly higher than mean pretest scores. Scores for younger participants also reflected more equitable attitudes than did scores for older participants. When scores on the inventory's four dimensions were analyzed in a subset of 73 respondents, changes also reflected more equitable attitudes following program participation. Since projects operating with Perkins Act sex equity set aside funds have increased scores on the Sex Role Survey indicating changes toward equitable attitudes, these programs should be continued and expanded. (Contains 2 figures and 15 references.) (SLD)
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
Sponsor: New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Office of Bilingual Education and Equity Issues.
Authoring Institution: Montclair State Univ., Upper Montclair, NJ. Career Equity Assistance Center for Research and Evaluation.
Identifiers - Location: New Jersey
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Carl D Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act 1990
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