The Women's Studies Experience: Personal and Professional Gains for Women and Men
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychology of Women Quarterly
- Vol. 11 (3) , 277-284
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1987.tb00903.x
Abstract
This study included 212 women and 38 men students from nine women's studies classes and 101 women and 35 men from nine non-women's studies classes. At pretesting and posttesting students completed the Performance Self-Esteem Scale (PSES) and measures of their educational and job certainty and motivation. Comparison students were similar to women's studies students in having a woman teacher and having an interest in the women's studies curriculum. At posttesting women's studies students showed greater gains in PSES scores ( p < .01) and in job motivation and job certainty ( p < .01) than did the comparison students. The results support the value of women's studies for men as well as women students.Keywords
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