College students viewed "Xena: Warrior Princess" (a woman in a nontraditional heroic role) under differing conditions. Researchers investigated how they perceived and remembered Xena as a function of the amount of shadow, an archetypal personality structure, portrayed in the episode, noting the influence of viewer characteristics. Viewer…

Describes a study of Australian students in grades seven, nine, and 11 that used the Computer Anxiety Index (CAIN), to test its unidimensionality and avoid the conceptual confusion of multi-dimensionality. Discusses the use of Rasch analysis, and analyzes differences in grade levels and gender. (Contains 51 references.) (Author/LRW)

Discusses the image of the archetypal, white, Lady Bountiful teacher, examining the historical colonial contexts that produced this archetype and the ideologies she represents. Argues that the persistence of this image in popular culture, teacher education programs, and beyond contributes to a climate that makes it difficult to address white…

Data from 464 women and 460 men on measures of gender ideology and gender composition of occupations indicated that women and men sometimes make different job-family trade-offs. Those in male-dominated occupations made more accommodations for jobs than family. Gender attitudes had little effect on trade-offs. Family demands often operate similarly…

Interviews with 109 Canadian women entrepreneurs explored processes of learning and change and conflicting images and messages they perceived about success, work, and competition, including discourses of self-determination and the good mother. Their experiences show how they either appropriate or resist these messages to shape their own meanings…

Methods used in a graduate course on women's issues in counseling are described, and implications for counselor education are discussed. Emphasis is placed on including experiential learning activities so as to help students understand women's experiences within Western culture. Counseling concepts and interventions for dealing with women's issues…

This study explores the gendered discourse of social-based computer-mediated contexts. Specifically, the critical ethnography explicates the patterns of discourse of male-based and female-based Internet chatrooms and discusses the findings of participant observation. (Contains 36 references.) (Author/LRW)

Points out the contributions of women to science education and their impact on the understanding of science teaching, curriculum, evaluation, and teacher education. Discusses the role of gender identity in shaping science learning. (Contains 54 references.) (YDS)

Examined children's internal representations of peer interactions. Found that children as young as preschool-age rate typical boys as preferring group interactions more than typical girls, more likely than girls to be friends with one another if they are friends with the same target boy or girl, respectively; and as less likely than girls to know…

Investigated the possible existence of a gender similarity bias in evaluations of gender discrimination allegations, using a laboratory experiment in which the strength of evidence against a defendant company and the gender of the plaintiff were manipulated. Participants were ethnically diverse undergraduate students. Although female mock jurors…

Explored gender differences in the longitudinal association between relationship satisfaction and dysphoria among dating college students. Data from student surveys and interviews indicated that initial relationship satisfaction predicted later dysphoria in women but not in men. Elevated levels of initial dysphoria were predictive of later…

Presents a dialogue that polarizes two opinions concerning various positions adopted by teachers of women's studies in relation to their students, in particular, ways that the teacher's personhood is implicit in the praxis of feminist teaching. Questions the notion that the personal is always good within feminist pedagogy, positing the liberating…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of sex identification on the assignment of instruments to beginning band students. Participants were band directors solicited at music conferences and music education students solicited from major universities across the United States. Participants completed an online survey about instrument…

This qualitative analysis of 50 couples explored how gender equality is related to the construction of motherhood in their day-to-day interactions. Results identified two models of mothering: (a) mothering as a gendered talent and (b) mothering as conscious collaboration. The first model perpetuated gender inequality through a recursive…

In section I of this article, Beth Berila, director of Women's Studies at Saint Cloud State University (SCSU), St. Cloud, Minnesota, provides a theoretical argument for incorporating Gender Studies into Women's Studies programs, drawing on recent analyses in feminist studies, queer theory, critical race theory, and transnational feminism. In…