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Lawton, Ericka; Obenland, Carrie; Barr, Christopher; Cushing, Matthew; Nichol, Carolyn – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Physics program for girls (PPG) is a two-week program held every summer since 2006, with the goal of engaging young women in inquiry-based physics experiments and to connect them with female science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professional role models. The program recruits young women to participate the summer after they have taken…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education
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Starr, Christine R.; Anderson, Barrett R.; Green, Katherine A. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2019
Women are less likely to choose physical Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (pSTEM) majors, partly because a lack of role models makes it hard for women to imagine themselves as successful in those fields. Possible self-interventions can help people imagine themselves having a successful future. Using social cognitive theory and…
Descriptors: Females, Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Social Cognition
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Sullivan, Amanda; Bers, Marina Umaschi – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2018
Aim/Purpose: The goal of this paper is to examine whether having female robotics teachers positively impacts girls' performance on programming and robotics tasks Background: Women continue to be underrepresented in the technical STEM fields such as engineering and computer science. New programs and initiatives are needed to engage girls in STEM…
Descriptors: Females, Robotics, STEM Education, Academic Achievement
Lazarian-Chehab, Rina – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of informal mentoring on the leadership development of women in leadership positions in Vietnamese universities. Methodology: This study was qualitative in nature; therefore, ethnographic design methodology was utilized to collect data. The data collection was performed in three stages:…
Descriptors: Mentors, Women Administrators, Barriers, Career Development
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Estrada, Juan Diego; García-Ael, Cristina; Martorell, José Luis – Gender and Education, 2015
Seven hundred and sixty-eight adolescents from five countries and regions (USA, Spain, Hong Kong, Qatar, and Malaysia), aged 13-19 (M?=?15.78; SD?=?1.28) years, responded to a questionnaire designed to determine who was their most admired famous adult or hero. Male heroes clearly outnumbered admired females (73.3% vs. 26.7%). There was a pattern…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Adolescent Attitudes, Role Models, Questionnaires
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Bower, Glenna G.; Hums, Mary A. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine mentoring relationships of women working within intercollegiate athletic administration. More specifically, the mentor characteristics and the career and psychosocial benefits of having a mentor in intercollegiate athletic administration were the focus of the study. The population for this study was all…
Descriptors: Mentors, Females, College Athletics, Administrators
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Ramsey, Laura R.; Betz, Diana E.; Sekaquaptewa, Denise – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2013
Academic environments can feel unwelcoming for women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Two studies examined academic environments of female undergraduates majoring in STEM fields at a university in the United States. In Study 1, we compared women in STEM who are in a welcoming environment to those in a traditional STEM…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, STEM Education, Womens Education, Females
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Shanahan, Marie-Claire; Pedretti, Erminia; DeCoito, Isha; Baker, Lindsay – School Science and Mathematics, 2011
This paper describes a subset of results from a large-scale two-year independent evaluation study conducted with the "Scientists in School" (SiS) outreach program and two large school boards in Ontario, Canada. Specifically, it explores the responses of elementary students (n= 811) from typically underrepresented groups in science…
Descriptors: Role Models, Females, Outreach Programs, Career Choice
Curriculum Review, 2009
The most recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data (2003-2004) revealed that approximately 18% of children 6-to-19 years old are overweight. The Beacon Street Girls brand was specifically designed to entertain while providing healthy role models and positive messages. This article presents a study that tested whether an…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Composition, Role Models, Females
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Huguet, Pascal; Regner, Isabelle – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
There is ample evidence today in the stereotype threat literature that women and girls are influenced by gender-stereotyped expectations on standardized math tests. Despite its high relevance to education, this phenomenon has not received much attention in school settings. The present studies offer the 1st evidence to date indicating that middle…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Mathematics Achievement, Womens Education, Mathematics Skills
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Eagly, Alice H.; Becker, Selwyn W. – American Psychologist, 2005
This article presents comments on "Definitions and Omissions of Heroism" by Jeffery W. Martens which is a comment on the original article "The Heroism of Women and Men" by Selwyn W. Becker and Alice H. Eagly. Becker and Eagly welcome the opportunity to discuss the questions about defining heroism that Martens raised in his comment on their…
Descriptors: Females, Males, Gender Differences, Comparative Analysis
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Murphy, Leonard; Rollins, Joan H. – Journal of Drug Education, 1980
Female staff members and residents of residential drug treatment programs had more liberal attitudes toward women than male staff members and residents. Female residents in both programs had nearly identical scores on the Attitudes toward Women Scale. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Counselors, Drug Rehabilitation, Females
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Nixon, Mary; Gue, L. R. – Canadian Administrator, 1975
The professional role orientation of women teachers and women administrators is compared with a limited number of variables. (Available from the Department of Educational Administration, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2G5; $4.00 annually.) (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrators, Comparative Analysis, Females, Marital Status
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Sheppard, Alice; Gange, Julie – 1982
The mass magazine industry offers new role images for women in contemporary magazines, assuming that they reflect the psychological needs of women's changing sex-role identities. To determine whether women classified as androgynous by the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) would prefer nontraditional models of femininity, 101 college women were asked…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Comparative Analysis, Females, Femininity
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McQuillen, Jeffrey S.; Ivy, Diana K. – 1985
A study was conducted to investigate the impact of role models on students' perceived competence, stress, and satisfaction with graduate school. Specific emphasis was given to the effects of gender on the evaluation process. Twenty-one male and female graduate students in communications were asked to designate the existence of a role model…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Females
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