WOMEN'S STUDIES IN RELIGION. Women's studies in religion comprise the many and varied scholarly approaches to the study of religion that arise from commitment to the equal dignity of the sexes, that employ the category of gender as a...

Questions about the degree to which concepts of sex and gender influence science and engineering or are appropriate subjects for scientific research and technological manipulation are fundamental ethical issues. This entry discusses those issues and...

Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyzes the phenomenon of gender. It examines both cultural representations of gender and people's lived experience. Gender Studies is sometimes related to studies of class, race, ethnicity and...

Research shows that the gender of an economics teacher does not have an impact on the quality of education presented to students despite findings that female students do not perform as well as males. Women instructors made no difference in the likelihood of women...

SBORN INTO THE EGYPTIAN ELITE IN THE 1940S, LEILA AHMED HAS LONG BEEN INTRIGUED BY THE DIFFERENT WAYS HER MUSLIM FAITH IS EXPERIENCED BY MEN AND WOMEN. he has constructed a career out of studying the role of women in Islam, writing several important...

Considers sex and gender stratification in the United States. Examines how the media contributes to gender stratification. Debates evidence that gender is learned and internalized, and there are expectations for both males and females.