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Jasmine Williams – Journal of Museum Education, 2024
This article explores the tension - in both positive and negative senses - of an aquarium's internal and external equity work. The article parses out this tension, especially reflecting on where the equity work lives, where it gets messy, and who is doing the work. It centers on the tensions around positionality for a woman of color initially…
Descriptors: Recreational Facilities, Females, Minority Groups, Ethnography
Meredith Grace McDevitt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation is an exploration of leader identity development and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) college academic classrooms. While there continues to be research promoting diversity in STEM professions, women remain underrepresented in STEM disciplines, leadership positions, and for this specific study, the…
Descriptors: Females, College Students, STEM Education, Student Experience
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Alexandra Rush; Olivia Kochis; Beth Belanger; Jennifer Brown Urban; Miriam R. Linver – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
On February 1, 2019, Boy Scouts of America officially accepted girls into its signature program (ages 11-18) and changed its name to Scouts BSA. This historic shift provided a novel opportunity for researchers to investigate the experiences of some of the first 13 girls to enter this traditionally all-boy space and examine how participation…
Descriptors: Females, Youth Programs, Experience, Attitudes
Lisa Wenninger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Supporting the development of an antiracist identity in counselors could facilitate change toward equity, justice, and opportunity within the counseling profession and increase awareness of white counselors in working with clients of color. Understanding obstacles to and enablers of antiracist attitudes in white women counselors holds the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Psychological Patterns, Accountability, Racism
Sara Pulido Bracht – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this intrinsic qualitative case study was to understand the meaning-making experiences and experienced-based decision making that occur among middle school girls while playing the tabletop role playing game Dungeons & Dragons through the online videoconferencing platform zoom. table-top games have been played in some form for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Females, Role Playing
Cornelius, Lisa M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This constructivist grounded theory study conceptualized how White women educated at Jesuit colleges and universities and engaged in racial justice ally behavior developed their identities as White women and racial justice allies. Nine participants from six different Jesuit universities engaged with the researcher through two interviews and a…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, White Students, Religious Colleges
Ralita Cheeks – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This critical autoethnographic dissertation delves into the personal journey of a Black female counselor and mother, whose path meanders through the complex terrain of education, leading her to a profound transition into the realm of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) leadership. Drawing from memories, emotions, and ongoing…
Descriptors: Leadership Role, Ethnography, Counselors, Blacks
Devost, Audrey Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Black women have a unique process in forming their identities, because of the subordinated status of both their racial and gender identity. Black women in America have urged American society at large to understand the complexity and multidimensionality of the Black woman identity, due to issues of inequality being addressed through a single axis…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Blacks, African American Students
Belgica Marisol Cucalon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Along the P-16 continuum, intersecting systems of oppression work to invisiblize, dismiss, and disparage Latina first-generation students' existing sources of knowledge, identity, and culture, resulting in long-term visible and invisible harm to their growth and well-being. Despite significant gains in higher education enrollment in the last two…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, First Generation College Students, Self Concept, Intersectionality
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Stump, Emily M.; Dew, Matthew; Jeon, Sophia; Holmes, N. G. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Prior research has indicated that students in the undergraduate physics lab divide work inequitably with regard to gender. In this work, we further probed women's experiences in lab group work, focusing on women who take on managerial and leadership roles in the lab. We interviewed and surveyed women enrolled in a sophomore-level project-based lab…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Females, Physics, Science Instruction
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Garriott, Patton O.; Carrero Pinedo, Ayli; Hunt, Heather K.; Navarro, Rachel L.; Flores, Lisa Y.; Desjarlais, Cerynn D.; Diaz, David; Brionez, Julio; Lee, Bo Hyun; Ayala, Evelyn; Martinez, Leticia D.; Hu, Xiaotian; Smith, Megan K.; Suh, Han Na; McGillen, Gloria G. – Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Background: Although participation rates vary by field, Latiné and women engineers continue to be underrepresented across most segments of the engineering workforce. Research has examined engagement and persistence of Latiné and White women in engineering; however, few studies have investigated how race, ethnicity, gender, and institutional…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Latin Americans, Hispanic American Students, White Students
Susan M. Caley Opsal – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A lack of understanding of how women perceive their learning continues to hinder efforts to design educational experiences that prepare women for STEM disciplines. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore women's perceptions of their learning from a middle school STEM program a decade earlier and other learning experiences they…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Middle School Students, STEM Education
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Kramer, Amy; Dringenberg, Emily; Morris, Carter; McCarthy, Darcy – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2023
The marginalization of women in engineering is a persistent problem. The overall goal of our collaborative project was to promote interest and participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly for high school girls. We took an action research approach with a local high school science teacher to develop,…
Descriptors: High School Students, STEM Education, Self Efficacy, World Views
Wittig, Ashley – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Research has shown that students' identity development is important for students' retention in engineering (Madsen, & Holmegaard, 2010), but for women the cultural representations of the field can create a disconnect that limits their potential identities with engineering (Carlone & Johnson, 2007; Faulkner 2006; 2007; Goldman, 2012; Malone…
Descriptors: Females, Engineering Education, Self Concept, Individual Development
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Mims, Lauren C.; Williams, Joanna L. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2020
Current research on ethnic-racial identity (ERI) development among Black youth derives primarily from studies that focus on the impact of parental racial socialization from a racial/monoidentity perspective without accounting for the roles of youth's other worlds (i.e., schools, classrooms, and peers) and the intersection of their social…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Ethnicity, Racial Identification, Socialization
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