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Smulders, Anna E. M. – 1998
This booklet sets out to show why gender is important in the management of higher education institutions. It explains that organizational culture and management practices, often considered to be neutral, are in fact gender-linked. Institutional efforts towards a more efficient and effective use of human resources often fail because they are based…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Administration, Females, Gender Issues
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Parker, Kerry – Physics Education, 2002
Considers whether there might be cultural elements that lie behind the tendency of physics to be a more popular option with boys than with girls. Concludes that making sweeping assumptions about male and female preferences is liable to create more problems. (Author/MM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Gender Issues, Physics, Science Education
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Didion, Catherine Jay – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1996
Describes the Women Scientists in Academe pilot program that aims at achieving significant and lasting improvements for women in scientific disciplines. Focuses on the issue of dual careers and shared positions and adjusting university policy to accommodate academic couples. (JRH)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Gender Issues, Higher Education, Sex Differences
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Cauble, Stephanie M.; Christy, Ann D.; Lima, Marybeth – Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 2000
Although females make up approximately 19% of college graduates receiving B.S. degrees in engineering, they account for less than 3% of the engineering faculty positions in North America. Identifies factors that have led to the success of these women faculty and makes recommendations for better integrating women into all engineering disciplines.…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Faculty Recruitment, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues
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Blaxer, Loraine; Hughes, Christina; Preston, Rosemary; Martin, Jane – Gender and Education, 2000
Reflects on the direction and progress of feminist debates in education from 1995-2000, outlining this journal's extracurricular developments and analyzing the content of papers published in the journal during those years. The analysis both confirms some stereotypes of feminist scholarship relating to education and highlights the impact of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Feminism
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Hoffman, Eileen; Magrane, Diane; Donoghue, Glenda D. – Academic Medicine, 2000
Introduces this theme issue dealing with women's health and medical education and discusses the distinction between sex, as biologically based differences, and gender, qualities that are culturally shaped. The current plurality of efforts in women's health provide a new organizational framework for medicine and changes in medical education. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Females, Gender Issues, Health
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Todman, John – Computers & Education, 2000
Describes a study that investigated self-reported computer anxiety scores for five samples of first-year undergraduates between 1992 and 1998. Confirms a reduction in mean levels of computer anxiety and in the proportion of computerphobic students and shows a widening gap between scores of female and male students. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Anxiety, Gender Issues, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies
American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC. – 1998
Using recommendations and insights gained from the book, "How Schools Shortchange Girls," this volume assesses the progress made toward sexual equity since 1992. It examines new challenges in American education, such as the focus on educational standards, and explores areas of potential equity challenges in the 21st century. It confirms the fact…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Females
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Marcella, Rita; Binfield, Susan J. – Education for Information, 1996
Describes a project which investigated perceived differences in the oral communication of technical information, and whether discrimination of gender based upon these perceptions is accurate. Results showed significant gender difference and that respondents largely based their perception of gender on use of technical language or jargon. Manner and…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Research, Gender Issues, Jargon
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Stein, Nan; Tolman, Deborah L.; Porche, Michelle V.; Spencer, Renee – Journal of School Violence, 2002
Reviews the development of the concepts of gender equity and school safety, asserting that these conceptualizations are not sufficient to eradicate the problems each targets. Proposes a new approach to this goal of creating and ensuring a safe, equitable school environment that builds upon key aspects of gender equity and school safety but is…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Gender Issues, School Safety
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Slotte, Virpi; Lonka, Kirsti; Lindblom-Ylanne, Sari – Instructional Science, 2001
Describes two studies at the University of Helsinki (Finland) that explored the existence of gender differences in spontaneous study strategies use while learning from texts. Discusses results that showed no differences in text comprehension, and concludes that different study strategies more than gender issues differentiated the learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Higher Education
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Tamboukou, Maria – Gender and Education, 2000
Examines discourses that interweave women's position in education today, theorizing education as a nexus of created paradoxical spaces, where the female self attempts to surpass closed boundaries, questioning the dichotomy of the feminized private and/or masculine public. Considers the importance of time restrictions upon women's lives. Discusses…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues
Barron, Daniel D. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2002
Discusses the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) survey of fourth grade student achievement in reading. Considers gender differences, ethnic differences, the Bush administration's Reading First Initiative, and educational funding; and provides an annotated list of pertinent Web sites. (LRW)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Education, Gender Issues, Grade 4
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Lal, Shafali – American Psychologist, 2002
Examines the individual and social contexts of the life of Mamie Clark (wife of African American psychologist Kenneth Clark), whose work at the Harlem Northside Center for Child Development helped define an increasing interest in the psychology of children of color. Urges greater attention to the dynamics of race and gender in history of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Psychology, Gender Issues, Minority Group Children
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Dillabough, Jo-Anne – Sociology of Education, 2003
Reviews the current place of reproduction theory within larger debates about gender in education. Focuses on the issue of what limits feminist reproduction theory in the study of gender inequality in schools. Argues that gender theories may fail because they sometimes emerge as political and sensational rather than public and ethical. (CAJ)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Gender Issues, Higher Education
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