Results of a workshop to review language arts, social studies, and counseling curriculum materials for sex bias are reported. The workshop, held in Lansing, Michigan in June 1979, consisted of 37 teachers who analyzed content and illustrations for sex discrimination. Evaluations are arranged alphabetically by the publisher of the textbook within…

OVER THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF ITS HISTORY, THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE HAS BEEN AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE HISTORY, CULTURE, AND SOCIAL LIFE OF ASHKENAZIC JEWRY. DURING PERIODS OF ASCENDANCY IT WAS THE SPOKEN VERNACULAR, THE IDIOM OF ENTERTAINMENT LITERATURE, AND THE LANGUAGE OF POPULAR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. THE PERIOD 1861-1914 SAW THE DEVELOPMENT IN…

This report describes a validation effort made to determine the effectiveness of a package of eight instructional modules which deal with equal opportunity and sex discrimination in physical education. A sample of preservice and inservice physical education teachers used the modules. The modules were validated through administration of pre and…

This paper presents four instructional units and a list of print and nonprint resources available to instructors who want to teach students about the differences and erroneous stereotypes associated with sex roles in male/female communication. The first unit contains information pertinent to sex-role development and the socialization process, and…

Neither vocational education programs nor the presence of nontraditional students had any significant impact on students' attitudes toward sex roles in the work world, according to a study of 1215 students in vocational programs at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical Institute (WITI) at Rice Lake. Most of the 840 male and 375 female students surveyed…

BORN FREE is designed as a collaborative effort of university-based counseling psychologists and field-site educators to reduce career-related sex stereotyping in 14 educational institutions. This report describes the evaluation of BORN FREE products and includes field testing of the three training packets for elementary, secondary, and higher…

By segregating women into the less responsible and lower paid jobs, the Canadian capitalist system has been able to have a source of cheap labor which represented no competition to the existing male labor force. For example, during the Great Depression, as available teaching positions dwindled, women teachers were compelled to accept small town…

Hawaii's ethnic groups have certain stereotypes of each other. These promote interethnic conflicts, with certain groups being preferred over others. The relationships between eight major ethnic groups (black, Caucasian, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean and Samoan) are explored in this study. The groups were studied and the results…

This study investigated the effects of therapist gender, client gender and sex-stereotypic behavior on ratings of maladjustment and prognosis made on four bogus clinical descriptions. Gender was manipulated by changing sex of client within each of two sex-stereotypic behavioral descriptions yielding two sex-appropriate and two sex-inappropriate…

This report presents the proceedings of the pre-conference seminar, "Careers and Management: Strategies for Women Professionals," which concentrated on issues related to (1) practicing techniques and strategies which can be applied to on-the-job situations, especially as related to career advancement and (2) developing methods of overcoming…

A report is given of an investigation examining the influence of student dialect and ethnicity on teachers' expectations of academic performance. The subjects of the study were secondary level teaching candidates enrolled in a generic methods course comprised of ethnically mixed learners. A control group of the teachers was given a course in…

It appears that there is nothing inherently associated with femaleness which should preclude the ascendence of women into management positions. However, barriers do exist and they stem from such factors as societal sex-role stereotypes, attitudes toward women in management, attitudes toward female competence, and the prevalence of the male…

The influence of question format on item responses is examined using split ballot techniques and sex-role stereotypes in a junior college sample. Two formats were used: direct, in which questions asked only about women, and comparative, in which items explicitly compared women with men. Significant differences by format occurred on seven out of…

There have been several major theories proposed to account for the development of stereotypes of old people. The literature on stereotyping of the elderly is reviewed, with an emphasis on the attitudes of various health workers, especially physicians and psychiatrists. The theories and supporting data of the classical psychoanalytic theory,…

This short booklet describes the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress' (NAEP) survey of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes, of students aged nine, thirteen, and seventeen and young adults in America to determine their career and occupational development (which included many elements of career education). (The survey,…