The aim of this study is to investigate the forms, significance and effects of feminist identity development among elite young women in a Chinese university environment. Based on fieldwork conducted over 11 months in a Chinese public university with a predominately male student body, this study explores the gendered experiences of eight female…

Achievement and competitiveness in women is examined within the new scholarship on women. Past research is reviewed and a new conceptualization of competitiveness is offered. Three tenets of the new scholarship on women identified in previous article by Greiner are described as having particular significance for understanding achievement and…

Describes ideas being developed to encourage women psychology students at Mount Holyoke to think seriously about themselves as potential scientists, including program of curricular change based on belief that it is essential for women students to have access to information about lives and work of women scientists that goes beyond appearance of…

Presents public policy issues that affect literacy among women. Discusses the economic jeopardy cycle of illiteracy, increased labor force participation of women, and family needs as factors which compel advocacy for programs aimed at increasing female literacy levels. Examines the illiteracy rate among women and its effect on employment. Includes…

Draws from dissertation on women's centers to present profile of 124 campus centers. Identifies patterns among them with regard to staffing, mission, constraints, and audience. Suggests two issues about center operations--constraints imposed by inadequate funding and the homogeneity of the center audience. (NB)

Presents a typology of women's centers and provides an overview of state, regional, and national networks of women's centers, including the evolution of the Women's Center/Services Caucus of the National Women's Studies Association and the more recently organized National Association of Women's Centers. (NB)

Summarizes a report offering over 270 recommendations for action toward equity at the individual, classroom, institutional, and policy levels. Describes the classroom context of myriad small inequities and emphasizes that professors need expertise, resources, and training to achieve sex equity. A sample recommendation was to intervene when…

Focuses on benefits of mutually supportive relationships between female administrators and women's center directors. Identifies specific roles that female administrators can play (guardian angel, mentor). Also discusses benefits that administrators derive from closer ties with center directors. (NB)

Zambia is increasingly recognizing that educating women will benefit families and the nation. Education can enhance women's share in the benefits of production and influence their childbearing practices and health behavior. (SK)

Presents synthesis of theories that dominate contemporary feminist scholarship. Explains four major theoretical orientations currently influencing feminist thought (liberal feminism, cultural feminism, radical feminism, and socialist feminism). Defines what is meant by feminist content and methodology in scholarship, particularly in the social…

The paradox of G. Stanley Hall seems to be his stance against coeducation simultaneous with his role as an educator of women. His theories must be considered in the context of the prevailing attitudes of the early 20th century toward the issue of sex differences. Hall was consistent in translating his theories into practice. (Author/VM)

Describes University of Richmond and Westhampton College, which function in coordinate college model, defending this hybrid. Describes how two cooperating single-sex colleges share joint, common curriculum but maintain somewhat separate identities, as with different faculties, residence halls, student governments, and college traditions. Describes…

Traces antecedents of the women's center to the now-defunct office of the dean of women. Considers mistakes of the past and how learning from those mistakes can help women's centers from meeting a similar demise. (NB)

Presents conceptual framework for understanding mentoring based upon the evolving capacity for interdependence that undergirds human development. Applies Kegan's developmental framework to mentoring relationships between academic women and explores their potential for enabling a mutual capacity for interdependence. (NB)

Slow growth of female literacy in Pakistan can be attributed to negative attitudes toward the status of women; religious, social, and political factors; and poverty, among others. Males receive more education than females, especially in rural areas. (SK)