Interviews with 20 women returning to study in Zimbabwe reveal how they are hindered by gender expectations of their sociocultural milieu. Efforts to remove discrimination are frustrated both by a male-dominated society and by some women's acceptance of the situation. (SK)

Describes the use of undergraduate teaching assistants in a Violence and Gender learning community, focusing on the rationale for this innovative teaching model. Presents strategies for recruiting, selecting, and preparing undergraduate teaching assistants and illustrates how they collaborated as part of the teaching team. (SLD)

Studied how teaching and learning in a community-based ambulatory setting varied by gender of students and preceptors using data contributed by 93 medical students on 5,017 patient encounters. Results show differences of potential importance in teaching and learning by gender of the student-preceptor dyad. (SLD)

Discusses the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) survey of fourth grade student achievement in reading. Considers gender differences, ethnic differences, the Bush administration's Reading First Initiative, and educational funding; and provides an annotated list of pertinent Web sites. (LRW)

Examines the individual and social contexts of the life of Mamie Clark (wife of African American psychologist Kenneth Clark), whose work at the Harlem Northside Center for Child Development helped define an increasing interest in the psychology of children of color. Urges greater attention to the dynamics of race and gender in history of…

Describes how the American Psychological Association changed in response to social problems and calls for social action, examining events leading to the establishment of the Board of Social and Ethical Responsibility for Psychology in 1972 and highlighting the role of African American psychologist Kenneth B. Clark in those events. (Contains…

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…