Measured individualism/collectivism, gender attitudes, and the relationship between these constructs among Ukrainian and U.S. American women. Surveys of 55 U.S. female college students and 50 Ukrainian female college students indicated that Ukrainians were more individualistic and held more traditional gender attitudes than Americans. There was a…

Career counseling with the intellectually gifted requires awareness of general concerns regarding this population as well as specific issues that may affect gifted males, females, and minorities. Use of career assessment instruments requires attention to their appropriateness for the gifted as well as gender and cultural bias. (Contains 65…

Examined the psychometric properties of the Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale in a group of African American college students, comparing scores from this sample to scores of a predominantly white norming base. While there were no significant differences between the norming sample and study sample, significant differences were found between African…

Discusses the benefits of reflection in higher education, highlighting one academic's reflections on herself as a woman in academia and how the attitudes she learned during her childhood and youth created problems during her own higher education and in her work as an academic. Also looks at educational discrimination against other minority groups.…

Examines racial politics of knowledge production in Brazil, comparing trends in women's studies scholarship in North America, England, and Brazil by investigating the significance of the intersection of race and gender in women's studies. Discusses how minority women's feminist scholarship has traveled to Brazil and how work by Afro-Brazilian…

Examined high and low body dissatisfied (BD) men's and women's in-task emotional responses to acute exposure to sex-specific physique slides of the aesthetic ideal and of themselves. Participating college students reported their immediate in-task emotional responses to viewing the slides. Men and women, as well as high and low BD groups, reported…

College students participated in two studies assessing differences in their way of addressing male and female professors and the implications of terms selected. The probability of being addressed by title versus name was significantly greater for men than women. Professors were perceived to hold higher status when addressed by title, regardless of…

Addresses how fundamental questions associated with research on gender and employment interviewing might be inherently biased. Contends that gender bias is prevalent in the workplace. Examines employment interviewing and what appears to be inconclusive evidence of gender bias in this context. Suggests guidelines for researchers interested in…

Examines whether hypothetically effective measures lead to an improvement of the situation for girls when implemented in the physics classroom. The intervention proved successful and significantly improved most of these indicators for girls (and boys) in the experimental group. (Author/MM)

Presents the experiences of British women academics of management, noting collective strategies to move on, mainstream their experiences, and challenge existing boundaries of management and organizations. Identifies patterns of inequalities in management and management education. Outlines women's stories as an emancipatory consciousness raising…

Describes how a 7th grade science teacher creates an equal learning environment for both female and male students. Explains how to personalize classroom structure, create a cooperative learning environment, and provide diverse role models. (YDS)

Explores the use of schools as settings for teenage horror films. Asserts that these narratives reflect the stress of social pressures and uncertainties, particularly young girls. Focuses on the television show, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," while making this argument. Includes references. (CMK)

A number of writers have argued that Erikson's stages of identity and intimacy do not address the experience of women accurately. This article contends that such claims come out of a serious misreading of Erikson's work, and shows that the stages as they stand are not incompatible with the idea that there are relational components of identity…

Provides seven responses of practicing teachers to the question, "What work has been the most helpful to you in considering gender issues in the teaching of English?" Describes the books and gives citations. (HB)

Contributes to scholarship on film and feminism by showing how James Whale's film attempts to excise or severely delimit the disturbing critique of the Romantic politics of gender in Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein." Discusses parthenogenesis, showing how the novel critiques the Romantic rhetorical reconstructions of masculine…