Sex Bias in the Schools: The Research EvidenceJanice Pottker, Andrew Fishel Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1977 - 571 pages The 41 selections included in this volume represent the best examples of the use of different research techniques to document empirically the existence of sex bias in the schools and its effects on American women and girls. |
Contents
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Girls More Moral Than Boys or Just Sneakier? | 60 |
SECONDARY EDUCATION | 67 |
The Adolescent Culture | 69 |
Sextyping in the High School | 78 |
A Review of Behavioral and Attitudinal Studies | 289 |
The Attitudes of Superintendents and Board of Education Members Toward the Employment and Effectiveness of Women as Publicschool Administr... | 300 |
School Boards and Sex Bias in American Education | 311 |
The Case of Maternity leave Policies for Teachers | 320 |
HIGHER EDUCATION | 331 |
The Effect of Sex on College Admission Work Evaluation and Job Interviews | 335 |
Sex Bias in Selective College Admissions | 344 |
Factors Influencing a Return to School and the School Experience | 354 |
The Impact of Title IX | 92 |
Male Chauvinism in the Schools | 105 |
TEXTBOOKS | 109 |
Psychological and Occupational Sex Stereotypes in Elementaryschool Readers | 111 |
Sex Stereotyping in Elementaryschool Mathematics Textbooks | 126 |
Women in US History Highschool Textbooks | 146 |
OCCUPATIONAL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL | 163 |
Childrens Sex Stereotyping of Occupations | 167 |
Sex Differences in the Occupational Choices of Second Graders | 173 |
Sextyping and Politicization in Childrens Attitudes | 178 |
Attitudes Toward Increased Social Economic and Political Participation by Women as Reported by Elementary and Secondary Students | 200 |
Adolescents Views of Womens Workrole | 207 |
COUNSELING | 217 |
Counselor Bias and the Female Occupational Role | 221 |
Femalerole Perception as a Factor in Counseling | 230 |
Accuracy of Information | 239 |
Counselors Attitudes Toward Women and Work | 247 |
Women and Educational Testing | 256 |
POLICYMAKERS | 275 |
Women Teachers and Teacher Power | 277 |
Overt and Covert Forms of Discrimination Against Academic Women | 380 |
Characteristics and Attitudes of Women Trustees | 411 |
STATE AND LOCAL STUDIES OF SEX BIAS IN PUBLIC EDUCATION | 415 |
Reports of the Womens Rights Committee Dayton Public Schools | 417 |
Governors Commission on the Status of Women Task Force on Education Report Commonwealth of Massachusetts | 464 |
THE SEXIEST CONTROL OF EDUCATION A STATISTICAL PORTRAIT | 503 |
Women in Educational Governance | 505 |
Women in Academic Governance | 514 |
OPINION POLLS | 525 |
Equal Rights for Women | 527 |
Seek and Ye Shall Find? | 529 |
Participation in Sports by Girls | 531 |
What If Anything Impedes Women from Serving on School Boards? | 532 |
SEX DIFFERENCES IN EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | 545 |
Sex Differentials in School Enrollment and Educational Attainment | 547 |
Proportion of Doctorates Earned by Women by Area and Field 19601969 | 554 |
Notes on Contributors | 562 |
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Popular passages
Page 37 - Implicit in all the gender identity development which takes place through childhood is the sum total of the parents', the peers', and the culture's notions of what is appropriate to each gender by way of temperament, character, interests, status, worth, gesture, and expression. Every moment of the child's life is a clue as to how he or she must think and behave to attain or satisfy the demands which gender places upon one.