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Beede, David; Julian, Tiffany; Langdon, David; McKittrick, George; Khan, Beethika; Doms, Mark – US Department of Commerce, 2011
The science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce is crucial to America's innovative capacity and global competitiveness. Yet women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and half of the college-educated workforce. That leaves an untapped opportunity…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Role Models, Females, Sex Role
Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
This article offers numerical information and statistics regarding sex and schools. It provides answers to questions such as: (1) Are teenagers sexually active?; (2) How widespread is educator sexual misconduct?; (3) Do students report abuse?; (4) Do gay and lesbian students feel safe at school?; (5) How often do LGBT students hear derogatory…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Teacher Student Relationship, Sexuality, Sexual Identity
Stromquist, Nelly P. – 1991
This study examined the choice of nonconventional fields of study by international women students at the undergraduate and graduate level. Using as subjects 150 graduate students (100 female and 50 male) and 100 undergraduate students (75 female and 25 male) from 10 universities in the United States, a field tested questionnaire was sent to 2500…
Descriptors: Family Role, Females, Foreign Students, Graduate Students
Taylor, Paul, Ed. – Pew Research Center, 2010
Social institutions that have been around for thousands of years generally change slowly, when they change at all. But that's not the way things have been playing out with marriage and family since the middle of the 20th Century. Some scholars argue that in the past five decades, the basic architecture of these age-old institutions has changed as…
Descriptors: Marriage, Family Structure, Census Figures, Trend Analysis
1997
This document presents a summary of a national telephone survey that examined messages sent to adolescent girls (ages 10 to 17) across 6 types of media most heavily used by adolescent girls: television, movies, magazines, music videos, television commercials, and magazine advertisements. The study asked what messages are sent about gender…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Films, Gender Issues
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Perlmutter, Jane Clarkson; Wampler, Karen Smith – Home Economics Research Journal, 1985
This study of 75 families with at least one preschool child examined the effects of sex-role orientation and wife's employment status on the division of housework and child care and husband and wife's satisfaction with that division. Results indicate that where wives work outside the home, husbands and wives share child care and housework more.…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Employed Women, Employment Level, Home Management
Abu Nasr, Julinda; And Others – 1983
This document is divided into two parts: (1) "A Study of Sex Role Stereotype in Arabic Readers" and (2) "A Guide for the Identification and Elimination of Sexism in Arabic Textbooks." In part 1, a sample of 79 Arabic readers were read word for word and the images pertaining to females were recorded. The results of the survey…
Descriptors: Arabs, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
Education Communications, Inc., Northbrook, IL. – 1980
An awareness of student opinions is important, because today's students are tomorrow's leaders. The eleventh annual "Who's Who Among American High School Students" questionnaire was completed by 24,000 high school juniors and seniors identified as student leaders and high achievers. The survey showed that although high achievers expressed little…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Economics, Government Role, High School Students
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Rombough, Shirley; Ventimiglia, Joseph C. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1981
Discusses the development of a Likert format scale with a Guttman Scoring option which measures attitudes toward sex roles in three broad areas: internal familial division of labor; external (economic) division of labor; and perceived sex differences. (Author/MK)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Economic Factors, Family (Sociological Unit), Sex Differences
Hofferth, Sandra L. – 1980
A study examined the differential effects of experiences prior to labor force entry, primarily in high school, on the later sex-typicality of occupations and earnings of non-college-bound men and women. The study analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of the Labor Market Experiences of Young Men and Women. (These surveys lnvolved…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Choice, Demography, Educational Background
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Kleiber, Douglas A.; Hemmer, Joan D. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1981
Compares relationship of male and female sport participation on locus of control, a dimension of personality that has been related to adjustment. Reveals female "organized" participants most internal and male nonparticipants most external. (Author/DA)
Descriptors: Females, Males, Participant Characteristics, Peer Influence
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Houstoun, Marion F.; And Others – International Migration Review, 1984
Analyzes statistics on the characteristics of immigrants to the United States, by sex. Discusses reasons for the predominance of women among immigrants since 1930, and presents a statistical groundwork for future analyses of the implications of this predominance. Includes numerous statistical charts and tables. (KH)
Descriptors: Females, Immigrants, Migration Patterns, Participant Characteristics
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Rueschemeyer, Marilyn – Journal of Family Issues, 1988
Describes the changing role of women in East Germany since World War II and the impact on family life. Discusses trends in marriages, divorces, birth rates, and employment. Sees new socialist family as not so different from new Western family, being shaped by labor force participation of men and women, alternative lifestyles, and a slow advance of…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Family Life, Family Structure, Females
Stephenson, Mary J. – 1976
A study explored changing family patterns among married middle and upper middle class women students over thirty with family intact. Eighty-seven homemaker-students enrolled at the Universlty of Maryland, College Park campus, during the spring semester, 1975, responded to a written questionnaire regarding their family patterns of decision making…
Descriptors: Change, College Students, Decision Making, Family Involvement
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Adams, Carol H.; Sherer, Mark – 1980
Some research has found that masculinity is associated with equally good, if not better, adjustment than androgyny. The relationship between gender-role orientation and psychological adjustment was examined using female college students and upper-middle-class housewives to test the hypothesis that masculine and androgynous women from both samples…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Androgyny, College Students
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