Background/Objective: Girls Inc. of Greater Indianapolis focuses on inspiring girls to be strong, smart, and bold through empowering programming that concentrates underprivileged populations. Eureka!, a STEM based program Inc., serves foster confidence knowledge in its workshops with local collaborators mentors. programs for girls, especially underrepresented are crucial due the enduring gender...

The previously equivocal relationship between sex-role identity (masculinityfemininity) in late-adolescent females and adjustment was investigated. Peer ratings of 30 college Ss, obtained after a period of small-group interaction, indicated that masculine girls tended to be both goal oriented (instrumental) and socially sensitive (expressive), whereas feminine girls tended to be socially sensit...

A growing number of programs aim to increase girls’ interest in computing courses and careers, but there is little research on their effectiveness. In this study, we describe how girls in an after-school and summer program changed over time. Activities were based on the expectancy-value model of motivation and included computer game programming and career and college exploration via virtual men...

Biotin enzymes such as pyruvate carboxylase and acetyl-CoA carboxylase are involved with the most basic metabolism. Thus, it is very important to monitor the biotin nutritional status for maintaining good health. We examined urinary excretion and the intake of biotin in a Japanese sample population of 60 boys and 36 girls (10-12 y), 37 male and 135 female college students (18-27 y), and 35 fema...

At Smith College, the graduation exercises traditionally proceed as follows: Although each diploma is made out to a particular girl, all the diplomas are initially given out at random. All of the girls who do not get their own diplomas then form a circle, and each passes the diploma she has to the girl on her right. Those who now have their own diplomas drop out, and the remaining girls again p...

Among non-Hispanic white children and adolescents, the prevalence of obesity increases as income decreases, yet the majority of non-Hispanic white children and adolescents who are obese do not live below 130% of the poverty level. In fact, overall, the majority of obese children do not live below 130% of the poverty level. All boys and girls and non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black girls i...

This study considers the role of religious habitus and self-concept in educational stratification. We follow 3,238 adolescents for 13 years by linking National Study Youth Religion to Student Clearinghouse. Survey data reveal that girls with a Jewish upbringing have two distinct postsecondary patterns compared non-Jewish upbringing, even after controlling social origins: (1) they are 23 percent...

1 University of Mumbai, S H Kelkar College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Devgad, (M.S.), India 2 Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati, Physics Department, Galati, 800008, Romania 3 Ain Shams University, Girls’ College, Department of Mathematics, Cairo 11757, Egypt 4 Delaware State University, Department of Physics and Engineering, Dover, DE 19901-2277, USA 5 Delaware State University, Departme...

Gender segregation in the labor market may be explained by women’s reluctance to choose technical occupations, although the foundations for career choices are certainly laid earlier, during education. Educational experts claim that female students are doing better in math and science and are more likely to choose those subjects if they are in single-sex classes. Possible explanations are the la...

Recent literature in science education suggests that, to transform girls’ participation, learning, and identities within school science, we must think about ways to engage girls in different kinds of educational activities that promote broader meanings of science and scientist. This study was designed to examine more deeply this call for a changed science curriculum and its implications for gir...