Cross validates and discusses the Good et al. confirmatory factor analysis of the Gender Role Conflict Scale (GRCS). Data taken from college students (N=684) support the internal consistency reliability of the GRCS and offer tentative proof for its factorial validity. Results highlight the importance of reporting multiple fit indices. (RJM)

Includes sections written by seminar participants: "Prologue,""Participatory Action Research (PAR)--What Is It?" and "Overall Narrative" (Greenwood); "Gender and Issues of Power" (Matthews, Strubel); "Issues in PAR Pedagogy" (Greenwood); "Participatory Evaluation" (Thomas);…

Defines women of color as African American, Asian American, Hispanic/Latina American, or Native American. Critiques the Culturally Appropriate Career Counseling Model and suggests a four-step process for career assessment of women of color that includes evaluation of cultural, gender, self-efficacy, and traditional career assessment variables. (SK)

Looks at the ways in which the relationship between women and work was characterized during the late 1940s in "Woman Speaks," a combination newsreel/television show in Chicago. Expands upon the work of other historians and critics who have examined the representations of gender in early television marketing ploys and variety/situation…

States that feminist argumentation is characterized by its commitment to analyze critically patriarchal reasoning and (re)visioning argument theory to include considerations of gender. Analyzes how/why a patriarchal line of argument privileging the male norm is produced and (re)produced in the fetal protection controversy. Uses the "Johnson…

Examined the relationship between gender, physicality, and embodiment among Canadian adolescent girls who played ice hockey. Interview data indicated that the girls emphasized the importance of being aggressive (fearless in use of the body). Players understood that contrasts between men's hockey (more physical and aggressive) and women's hockey…

Demonstrates that personality type is an important explanatory variable in student performance in upper level economics courses. Finds that certain personality types, combined with race and gender effects, produce students who outperform other students. Introverts and those with the Keirsey-Bates temperament combination of sensing/judging…

Describes advances in gender equity in college athletics, but also identifies the threat posed by rising costs, which undermine both women's and men's athletic programs. (SLD)

Discusses coeducation efforts at prestigious U.S. higher education institutions in the 1880s, specifically Columbia University and Barnard College (New York City). Concludes that narrative concerning women at these institutions includes the perspective that women were institution builders despite limited notions about female access and…

Notes that the hallmark of Madonna's career has been her contradictory play with gender roles and images. Argues that while the analytic foci are varied, feminist evaluations of Madonna's contradictory gender play continue to employ binary models of assessing Madonna as either challenging or reinforcing gender roles. Analyzes Madonna's "The…

Highlights the extent to which females are underrepresented in mathematics- and science-related careers. Discusses gender differences in mathematics coursework, mathematics achievement, and career choices; reasons for female nonparticipation in mathematics; encouraging females toward mathematics-related careers; and new questions and directions.…

Discussions of knowledge workers are gender blind and ignore or devalue women's work. A more useful conception of the worker as cyborg illuminates questions of ownership of skills and knowledge and the blurring of boundaries between humans and technologies. (SK)

Investigates a group of women scientists' understanding of themselves and science. Uses a mixture of conventional qualitative research methods and techniques developed for use in psychotherapy. Discusses contradictory results to some of the assumptions on which past work on girls and science education is based. Explores implications of these…

Longitudinally followed Norwegian early adolescents of immigrant or Norwegian-born parents who managed cultural complexity in developing from childhood to adulthood. Girls' explorations of culturally approved developmental pathways brought them into the sphere of heterosexuality. Outside the formal curriculum, they could resist, but not ignore,…

The Imposter Phenomenon, secret feelings of fraudulence and inadequacy among high achievers, are more prevalent in women. Aspects of the educational environment, including sexual harassment and stereotypes, and institutional barriers may contribute to the syndrome. Additional research is needed on the intersection of race, class, and gender with…