Provides an annotated bibliography of books: girls perceptions of their bodies, excellence in library services to young adults, adolescence in America, evaluating and reviewing childrens books, and connecting young adults and libraries. (PEN)

Questions the relationship between mathematics and gender issues by focusing on Australia. Emphasizes the research, governmental policies, teaching, and attitudes related to this issue in Australia. (Author/ASK)

Investigated the impact of gender issues on the university campus in the United Kingdom through 37 interviews with students and staff. In male-dominated disciplines a "narrow" definition of curriculum as a body of knowledge to be transferred to students prevailed. In disciplines where more women were present, gender dimensions were more…

Explores whether evolved disposition that differs by sex or social structure explains sex differences in human behavior. Illustrates the explanatory power of each theory, and reviews a study (D. Buss, 1989) that supports the social structural theory with respect to mate preference. (SLD)

Examines the effects of a secondary school technology-immersion program on the technological competency of students. Discusses the effects of participation in a high computer-to-student access ratio on female student performance, and reports statistically significant skill increases for male and female students in the high access immersion…

Explores teaching gender to management students, mainly those working toward Masters in Business Administration degrees. Introduces a gender awareness approach and illustrates it with two examples of "doing" gender using multiple associations of that term. (SLD)

This study of Israeli kindergarteners examined gender differences in the preferences to varying designs of multimedia learning interfaces in interactive multimedia stories. Highlights include a taxonomy of design of efficient user interfaces and the use of Lampert's Attitude Pollimeter to determine students' opinions. (Contains 19 references.)…

Investigates the personality traits that people believe to characterize moral exemplars and to compare that trait description with those for related types of exemplars. Reveals differences in personality attributions across types of exemplars and indicates that traits reflecting the Conscientiousness and Agreeableness factors were salient for the…

Examines whether adolescent females spend more time in conversations and less time alone than adolescent males (N=2,004). Findings show that girls spent more time alone and in conversation when compared to boys. Results are interpreted in terms of males' orientation toward sports, and females' orientation toward close interpersonal relationships.…

Libraries are the logical place to model gender-equitable practices, broadening the scope of technology and equipping young people with skills to succeed in a diverse and changing environment. This article discusses gender attitudes about technology and library and teaching issues related to technology and gender. Argues that separate Internet…

Examines the role of individual differences (gender and race) on the stress-illness relationship among adolescents. Results based on 119 participants reveal that stress and anxiety were positively correlated with reported illness. Race and gender differences did emerge, although no gender differences were found with regard to the experience of…

Investigates the effects of timbre, as a cue, on gender-instrument associations by third-grade students. Indicates that gender-timbre associations were strong for this age group: males were associated with brass instruments and cello; females were associated with flute and violin. Discusses implications of gender-instrument associations for music…

Describes a nine-session group modeled after the work of Robert Bly. The group was existential in nature and used myth to explore male-to-male interaction and cohesion. Discusses the group's five phases: rapport/initiation; relationships with men--fathers and mentors; relationships to women and children; life maps; and ending. (RJM)

A study of 261 New Zealand students (ages 6-15) investigating technological capability in undertaking technological problem-solving tasks determined that focus on end-product precluded students from fully considering processes to solve problems, that technological approaches were influenced by classroom culture, and that existing concepts of…

Presents six common themes that characterize scholarship about race, class, gender, and sexuality. These themes are contextual and socially constructed, and deal with systems of power relationships. They stress the social structural (macro) and social psychological (micro) nature of the issues and their simultaneous expression, as well as the…