A study of the distress experienced by male and female law students in all three years of law school, as measured by a validated psychiatric symptom survey insrument, also compared the distress of law students to that of with medical students. (MSE)

This study investigated six differences in the effects of parents' educational expectations and relationship with parents on 105 young Israeli adolescents. Results showed differences in both aspects of family learning environment, including a negative relation for females and a positive relation for males between realistic expectations and…

A comparative study of medical and law students was undertaken to examine the sources and consequences of stress during professional training and the impact of stress on personal relationships. Women reported significantly more stress than men. (Author/MLW)

Three enrollment patterns are identified from longitudinal data: (1) high school cohort enrollment rates have stabilized but differ by race, sex, and institution type; (2) a reported talent loss of high-ability males is not confirmed; and (3) colleges, especially four-year, help to equalize access to education. (Author/MSE)

Results suggest that (1) sexism in the classroom may be a "male disease," affecting perceptions and classroom climate and (2) student coping behaviors such as daydreaming and hiding feelings are used only in the classes of male professors. (PD)

Married women are more psychologically distressed than married men, but this gap is less pronounced among Mexican Americans than among Anglos. However, this research did not find support for the hypothesis that employment was related to greater happiness for Anglo women but not for Mexican American women. (Author/IS)

Defines sexuality, describes the process of informal sexual learning as children acquire meanings and values from their social environment (e.g., parents, mass media, and people around them), and discusses the consequences for teenagers of adults' unwillingness to communicate openly and honestly with them about sexual issues. (MBR)

Study of 245 Mexican American male workers from Arizona, California, Colorado, and Texas found substantial spillover effects of nonwork satisfaction on reported job satisfaction. Nonwork variables were amount of control over life, satisfaction with family life, employment opportunities in community, leisure time, relationship with spouse, standard…

Interview data from 98 Black adolescent males in Columbus, Ohio, indicate that those who are fathers or who do not believe they have control of their destiny (an attitude more prevalent among fathers that nonfathers) are more likely to be school dropouts than others. Educational implications are discussed. (CJM)

Thrust into the paid labor force for the first time after the Civil War, many Southern White women became public school teachers, usually at half the salary paid to male teachers. The struggle of these women to end the wage disparity is discussed. (RM)

Health educators can play a vital role in helping provide emotional and social support for single fathers, in helping prepare their children for parent roles, and in educating the community about needs of these parents. Special characteristics and needs of single-father families are discussed. (PP)

Confirms the hypotheses that (1) males are expected to use more aggressive persuasive strategies and when they do not conform to such expectations, attitude change is inhibited; and (2) females are not expected to use such aggressive strategies and are penalized when they are the source of unexpectedly aggressive message strategies. (PD)

When chronicling how less-skilled workers have fared in the U.S. since the late 1970's, existing literature often cites their falling wages and declining participation in the labor force. Most research describing these trends, however, focuses primarily on men, failing to account for the fact that less-skilled women's real wages have not fallen,…

Each year our college system gives twice as many bachelor's degrees (BAs) to African American females as males. Large gender gaps favoring women also exist for other groups. Indeed, on average our college system gives 35% more BAs to females than males across all racial and ethnic groups. Traditional explanations for this pattern have focused on…

This chapter, Chapter 2 in "the Economics of Gender in Mexico," uses retrospective household survey data from Mexico to assess the long-term impacts of school dropout and of working early in life, in terms of adult labor market returns. Through these data, it is possible to link adult wages to the ages at which individuals started…