This exploratory study compared the life style and interpersonal need orientation, leadership style, and perception of the organization structure of female supervisors in business and government organizations. (Author)

A survey distributed to a random sample of 7,000 members of the Women's Sports Foundation uncovered many similarities and differences between athletic women and other Americans interested in sports and fitness. Although the sample of athletic women was atypical of women generally, they resemble other Americans in the sports/fitness activities they…

This document is a copy of the survey questionnaire responded to by 1,682 members of the Women's Sport Foundation. The questions focused on the following areas: (1) personal sports interests; (2) personal background; (3) sports participation; (4) interest in and attitude toward spectator sports; and (5) general opinion on women in sports. A brief…

This document presents an overview of research in retirement housing which focuses on studying individuals' adaptation to retirement housing, consulting on the design of retirement housing, and conducting community surveys to assess the interest in living options for older persons. The terms congregate housing, continuing care retirement centers,…

Accurate information about lesbians has been difficult to obtain; much information that is available has been extrapolated from studies of homosexual men. A survey was conducted to reach the diverse cross-section of the lesbian population and to obtain accurate data with which to define the lesbian community. Questionnaires were distributed to…

Partial support is found for the relationship between family size preferences and size of family of orientation. However, it is suggested that this relationship holds most strongly under conditions of little intergenerational change in lifestyle, a limitation not noted in earlier work. (Author)

Women's centers are being formed on many campuses throughout the country to aid women as they are developing new roles and life styles. Many people are asking how a women's center may be initiated. This is a discussion of ways to develop a women's center. (Author/EK)

Analysis of photographs in the Los Angeles "Times" and the Washington "Post" shows men appeared more often than women, except for the lifestyle sections. (RB)

Author outlined her experiences as a woman, a professor, and a mother. She also urged other women, tenured professionals, to sustain collective efforts in order to help those women struggling up the ladder towards academic success and survival. (RK)

Examines the relationship between the preretirement life-style of adult men, and both the degree of planning for the retirement years and the decision to retire early. Socioeconomic status, health, involvement in expressive-type organizations, job satisfaction, and degree of leisure orientation were associated with preretirement attitudes. (Author)

This paper is a preliminary statement about morning and night people. The authors collected and analyzed married student responses to open-ended questions concerning "morningness" and "nightness" as factors influencing individual, marital, and family adjustment. This issue has both theoretical and practical significance for marriage and the…

Examines role of social participation in postseparation and postdivorce adjustment. Subjects, 277 members of Parents without Partners chapters, were administered a 273-item questionnaire containing the Postdivorce Problems and Stress Scale. Higher levels of social participation were strongly related to lower stress. (Author)

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) voted to impose a moratorium on Eskimo bowhead whale hunting. Since the U.S. did not exercise its option to object, had previously avowed support for Alaskan subsistence lifestyles, and had previously maintained legal exemption for the Eskimo, there is currently great Alaskan resentment. (JC)