...Cody Logan Chullen; Tope Adeyemi-Bello; Xiao-Yu Xi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine current gender differences in job expectations among Chinese college students, how current job expectations across gender differ from an earlier study, and how they might impact organizational...

...Dr Brigitte Liebig and Dr René Levy; Elena Makarova; Walter Herzog Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the gender stereotype of science by analysing the semantic attributes of gender in relation to three science subjects – chemistry, mathematics, and physics – among students...

...Joel Rudin; Sinead Ruane; Linda Ross; Andrea Farro; Tejinder Billing Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to enhance the understanding of employers’ responses to the restroom requests of transgender employees, and to assess the ability as educators to reduce transphobia in the students...

...Katie R. Sullivan; April A. Kedrowicz Purpose The purpose of this paper is to draw from the authors’ experiences, as women teaching Communication in a College of Engineering and mechanical engineering students’ evaluations, to highlight student resistance to both practices and bodies deemed...

... in 2009, the slight increase for MSE from 22 percent in 2000 (ASEE, 2010) to 28 percent female MS degrees is considerably greater. United States of America Universities Academic staff Students Sciences Gender Considerable effort has been expended on describing diversity contexts, data...

...Stephanie R. Sipe; C. Douglas Johnson; Donna K. Fisher Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a gap exists in student perceptions of sexual harassment in the workplace as compared to the realities. Over 20 years following the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the US...

...Kamal E. Abouchedid Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine gender role attitudes between Christian and Muslim college students towards 11 most heatedly debated cliches in Lebanon that concern equal access of men and women to political and social spheres including employment. Design...

... students from different cultural backgrounds. Design/methodology/approach Survey responses from international and US women participants in a support program for CSE graduate women in the USA are compared. Findings These analyses indicate that US and international women are similar in what drew them...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Students Women Mathematics Motivation (psychology) Australia United States of America Girls and women who opt out of mathematics in high school or soon after prematurely restrict their educational and career options (Heller and Parsons, 1981...

... interviews without gay and lesbian student officers in GLBT student organizations on campuses all across the USA. I specifically wished to discover their expectations relating to discrimination and information about their job seeking behaviors through analysis of the participants’ detailed oral descriptions...

... with a disadvantage relative to their English‐speaking counterparts. However, this disadvantage is eroded by the length of stay in the US, ability to speak English, and other job‐related characteristics. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Career guidance Culture (sociology) Equal opportunities Scotland Students...

...Jonathan Liu; Doirean Wilson Presents the findings of a survey by means of structured questionnaire, interviews and discussions with students on the Returners into Enterprise programme at Middlesex University. Attempts to discover the key issues relevant to women at work, particularly in management...

...Catherine W. Ng Presents the results of a study of 84 first year undergraduates in Hong Kong which looked at discrimination due to gender. Considers the female students’ experience in relation to home, school and work showing that the study suggests they face blatant and subtle sexist attitudes...

... effectiveness. Reviews relevant research, and describes a subject‐blind experiment designed to favour an autocratic approach, involving 40 teams of US graduate business school students, who were given a limited time to complete a problem‐solving exercise using written correspondence as the only communication...