The main purpose of this report is to provide guidelines for a study on educating for leisure. The authors proceed on the theory that to understand fully the leisure time activities of individuals it is necessary to take into consideration their whole life of home circumstances, work, and schooling and examine this in relation to their…

Data presented here are based on responses to mail questionnaires which focused on the multiple roles of women in the educational research community; women as students, as faculty members, and as employees in research organizations. (Author/AM)

Three tables summarize information on statistics on associations membership, womens' groups, policy enactment and availability of studies, activities of womens' committees in professional associations, and policy statements on the status of women. (Author/AM)

This article compares a West German and American research study which found that members of various social classes usually preferred to interact with people in a higher social class. (DE)

This paper reports on positions of power and prestige that minorities have held in Canada and suggests the potential role of minorities in managerial positions. Also suggested are conscious efforts by the subcultural groups, the government, and the private and voluntary sectors to foster acculturation and multiculturalism in Canada. (Author/EB)

A strong correlation was found between frequency of communication between preschool teachers and parents and the number of topics discussed. Teachers' age and experience were not significantly related to communicative behavior. (Editor)

Implicit in much theoretical literature on marital relations in dual-career families is the hypothesis that marital stress and dissatisfaction would be attendant if working wives were higher in occupational prestige than their husbands. Two sources of the hypothesis are reviewed; no support is found for the hypothesis. (Author)

Describes a cross-national study of teaching as a career goal among youth in rural regions of Norway, Germany, and the United States. Various determinants of career-choosing behavior were studied: sex-role factor, residence, father's occupational status, and achieved scholastic performance level. Results show that teaching allows lower status…

Attempts to summarize the existing "state of the art" in the field of education and inequality in the less developed nations and to point to some promising lines of future research on social inequality. (Author/RK)

Social endorsement of the classical theory of disengagement which explains the social and psychological withdrawal of older people has resulted in the unhappiness of many Americans. American society must allow older persons to remain actively engaged in meaningful activities throughout their life spans. This article discusses the communication…

Notes that women have made great gains in learning about and using effective birth control. The widest gap between the sexes appears in the exercise of power in the highest levels of the political and occupational structure, both of which remain almost totally male dominated. (Author/AM)

Non-verbal behavior is a powerful and consistent channel for communication of womens' low status. In both direct interactions with men and in personal styles of feminine behavior, non-verbal cues actively perpetuate traditional sex-role stereotypes, often in ways of which most people are unaware. (Author/AM)

This author proposes a theory which seeks to explain the behavior patterns of Asian Americans within the context of socio-historical forces and the contemporary social system. The notion that Asian Americans have achieved middle class status and have been almost completely assimilated into the American mainstream is challenged. (Author/GC)

Argues that a career is a lifestyle based on status-group membership and position within the family. The advocacy of dual-career families, it is argued, recognizes the barrier the family creates for women's personal achievement, but has failed to assess adequately the supportive role of the family in the personal achievement of men. (Author/JM)

States that if the wife is to work, it is important that her occupation reflect favorably on the family's socioeconomic position. This need for status offsets the need for her occupation to be of a nonthreatening status. It is suggested that the amount of disruptive competition which would occur if both the husband and wife worked has been…