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Sex differences and discrimination in education / by Anderson, Scarvia B.(CARDINAL)137716;
Bibliography: pages 106-112.I. Sex differences : 1. What kind of difference does sex make? / Samuel Messick : The nature of sex differences ; Determinants of sex differences ; The future of sex differences : Differences in value ; The value of differences -- 2. Sex differences in intellectual functioning / Eleanor E. Maccoby : Correlations between intellectual performance and personality characteristics : Impulse control ; Fearfulness and anxiety ; Aggression and competitiveness ; Level of aspiration and achievement motivation ; Sex-typing ; Dependency, passivity, and independence. Possible casual factors of sex differences in intellectual abilities : Developmental timetable ; Direct effects of sex-typed interests ; Opportunities to learn ; "Identification" and modeling ; Sex-typed personality traits as mediating processes. Genetic versus environmental contributions -- II. Schools and preschools : 3. He only does it to annoy / Marshall P. Smith : Differences start at or before birth ; The girls are ready for the school ; The school is the way the children see it ; Upper grades - more of the same ; Girls get the A's but the boys grow ; What way out? -- 4. "Look, Jane, look! See Dick run and jump! Admire him!" / Karen DeCrow : Textbook content and women ; Social studies content ; Reading about differences ; Women in literature -- 5. Are little girls being harmed by "Sesame Street"? / Jane Bergman : Puppets and cartoons ; Films ; "Real" people ; Perpetuation of stereotypes -- 6. Down the up staircase: sex roles, professionalization, and the status of teachers / Barbara Heyns : Status of teachers ; Historical background ; Sex roles in teaching ; Salaries ; Teacher organizations -- III. Higher education : 7. Some dilemmas of women's education / David Riesman : Minority status : Solidarity among women. The "male" mode : Reactions to the "male models. Women, careers, and marriage ; What educational institutions can do ; Security for the men ; Still a man's world ; Women in sciences ; A look at other societies -- 8. The effect of race and sex on college admission / Elain Walster, T. Anne Cleary, and Margaret M. Clifford : Procedure ; Independent variables ; Dependent variables ; Results ; Analysis of additional variables -- 9. Coeducation -- 10. How coeducation fails women / Sheila Tobias : Fear of success ; Passivity and dependence ; Inferiority ; Countering the culture ; Women's studies -- 11. A myth is better than a miss: men get the edge in academic employment / Lawrence A. Simpson -- 12. Women in universities / Ethel Bent Walsh : Discrimination in admissions ; Discrimination in employment ; The role of government -- 13. Comment: "education's and not nature's fools," / Scarvia B. Anderson.
Subjects: Discrimination in education; Sex.;
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