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Buchholz, Laura J.; Crowther, Janis H.; Ciesla, Jeffrey A. – Journal of American College Health, 2018
Objective: Women who report greater chronic dieting consume more alcohol, drink more frequently, and experience greater problems than women who report less chronic dieting. Alcohol may also temporarily disrupt a woman's dietary rules, leading to increased caloric intake and subsequent restriction. This study examined whether alcohol use mediated…
Descriptors: Dietetics, Alcohol Abuse, Womens Studies, Chronic Illness
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Nakagawa, Mana; Wotipka, Christine Min – Comparative Education Review, 2016
The invisibility of women in educational curricula and the effect this has on perpetuating women's marginal status in society has been well documented. This article examines (1) whether and how mentions of women and women's rights have expanded and changed in textbooks cross-nationally and over time and (2) to what extent these outcomes are driven…
Descriptors: Females, Civil Rights, Womens Studies, Disadvantaged
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Sebastian, James; Moon, Jeong-Mi – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine whether female principals have a more participatory style compared to their male counterparts by examining principals' daily time allocation patterns. The study analyzed data from End of Day (EOD) survey logs from principals in an urban school district in the United States. Results from hierarchical linear…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Participative Decision Making, Principals, Time on Task
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Mills, Jamie D.; Simon, Marsha E. – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2015
This study investigated the performance of U.S. eighth-grade female and minority students' achievement in learning statistics concepts using the Data and Chance content domain from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study 2007 (TIMSS 2007). Using variables that have been linked to mathematics and statistics achievement in the…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Minority Group Students, Females, Literacy
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Ro, Hyun Kyoung; Loya, Karla I. – Review of Higher Education, 2015
Women and underrepresented minorities in traditionally White and male-dominated disciplines tend to report lower learning outcomes than their White peers. Adopting a feminist intersectionality framework, this study looks at the intersections of gender and race to investigate differences in self-assessed learning outcomes in engineering…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Racial Factors, Whites, Minority Groups
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Laursen, Sandra L.; Weston, Timothy J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
The education of doctoral chemists contributes to the chemical research enterprise and thus to innovation as an engine of the economy. This quantitative analysis describes trends in the production and diversity of chemistry Ph.D. degrees in the top-50 U.S. Ph.D.-granting departments in the past two decades. Time series data for individual…
Descriptors: Productivity, Chemistry, Institutional Research, Doctoral Programs