Gender and Power in the Community College: New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 89

by Barbara K. Townsend

Gender socialization results in stereotypes that usually operate to women's disadvantage socially, politically, and economically because certain characteristics seen as feminine are viewed as less desirable than characteristics commonly viewed as masculine. the community college needs to be responsive to changes in American society and thus responsive to the actual, not stereotypically conceived, needs of female and male students, faculty, and administrators...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078799913X
• ISBN13: 9780787999131
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"