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Wilke, Dina – Health & Social Work, 1994
Contends that comprehensive discussion of women's alcoholism must include understanding of how male-as-norm bias has affected alcoholism research, assessment, and treatment. Summarizes how male-as-norm bias has affected research on women's alcoholism and shaped perceptions of women's alcoholic behavior and their responses to treatment. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Behavior Patterns, Females, Feminism
Oravec, Christine – Association for Communication Administration Bulletin, 1983
Focuses on the conditions, results, and both personal and institutional consequences of sexual harassment. Provides ethical behavior guidelines for instructors. (PD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Ethics, Females, Higher Education
Sculli, Joan G. – 1992
Dating violence can be described as a pattern of repeated threats or acts of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse by a member of an unmarried, noncohabitating couple. Dating violence is most often a pattern of behavior that begins with verbal and emotional abuse and eventually escalates into physical battering. Teens are particularly at risk…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Dating (Social), Emotional Response
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Bensimon, Estela Mara – Journal of Education, 1992
Argues that maintaining a distinction between public and private spheres of behavior can obscure the inequities experienced by lesbian and gay persons in the public sphere of academia. How distorted logic supports the public/private dichotomy is demonstrated through interviews of a lesbian faculty member. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Faculty, Equal Protection, Females
Rozema, Hazel J. – 1982
Both women and blacks are often seen as inferior, emotional, harmless, content in their places, and nonverbally submissive, and are subject to overt discrimination in education, employment, and politics. Assertiveness training, a popular means used by women to overcome or combat sexism, could be equally effective in combatting racism. Assertive…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Patterns, Blacks, Communication Skills
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Redford, Maryann – Journal of Dental Education, 1993
Research on women's dental health and on differences between men's and women's dental health issues is reviewed. Factors specifically influencing women's health, including medical, economic, social, psychological, and behavioral factors, are also examined. It is argued that the clustering of risk factors for women indicates a need for more…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Dental Health
Lenskyj, Helen – 1989
Given the findings that females and males of all ages approach sport from markedly different perspectives, sport sociologists have acknowledged sex differences in sport socialization factors and processes. (Sport is defined in its broadest sense to encompass a range of formal and informal sport, fitness, play, and leisure activities.) It has been…
Descriptors: Athletics, Behavior Patterns, Childrens Games, Females
Rush, Ramona R. – 1983
A "best case" model for the role of women in the postindustrial communications era predicts positive leadership roles based on the preindustrial work characteristics of cooperation and consensus. A "worst case" model finds women entrepreneurs succumbing to the competitive male ethos and extracting the maximum amount of work…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Career Development, Careers, Communications
Roberts, Elizabeth – Television & Children, 1983
Defines sexuality, describes the process of informal sexual learning as children acquire meanings and values from their social environment (e.g., parents, mass media, and people around them), and discusses the consequences for teenagers of adults' unwillingness to communicate openly and honestly with them about sexual issues. (MBR)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Females
Miller, Darcy; And Others – 1992
This paper offers profiles of females with behavioral/emotional disorders and suggests that these young women have unique needs. The paper discusses selected characteristics and assessment considerations and offers recommendations that will facilitate more responsive social, correctional, and educational programming. Characteristics of these young…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Patterns, Child Abuse, Delinquency
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Albino, Judith E. – Educational Record, 1992
Men and women have different characteristic work behaviors and attitudes that affect their career advancement. A study of women college administrators identified four abilities of successful women in the field: strong sense of self; working hard and setting priorities; interpersonal skills, including listening and mediating; and ability to use…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Behavior Patterns, College Administration, Employed Women
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Figueira-McDonough, Josefina – Youth and Society, 1992
Explores the community as an important context of both legitimate and illegitimate female behavior. Based on the principle of the centrality of the structures of gender relations for behavior of males and females, the original community model is expanded to include population characteristics relevant to that structure. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Community Influence, Context Effect, Delinquency
Friedley, Sheryl A. – 1982
Despite the increase in the number of women entering the work force, the organizational setting is not typically conducive to upward mobility for most women. According to a variety of research studies, the impact of sex role stereotyping clearly suggests a set of communication behaviors appropriate for male managers and a different set appropriate…
Descriptors: Administration, Assertiveness, Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns
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Stevens, Joyce West – Child Welfare, 1997
Claims that African American female adolescents have unique identity issues that structure developmental tasks. Uses data from a longitudinal study to explicate a three-dimensional model of the identity developmental process. Describes adolescents' development of skillful, unique, expressionistic, and assertive styles of dealing with perceived…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns
Clarken, Rodney H. – 1995
This paper discusses inequities and injustices toward women and advocates remedies through education. Practical suggestions based upon expectations theory and the Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement Test (TESA) program offer teachers ways to reduce discrimination and improve achievement in classrooms, especially for those denied an equal…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education