Undergraduate Women's Gender Awareness and Status Aspirations.

摘要: A study was conducted to determine women's realization toward the quality of life, identifying their status aspirations. The study's primary purpose achieve a better understanding how undergraduate women Guam and Japan would aspire academic social goals they become aware gender equality. secondary an life course selection be associated with realized focus on formulating statistical profile two different settings. Although are geographically close, mind set culture people quite distant. In particular because it is important military site, has mirrored U.S. government institutional models Americanized. Even though modern day founded plan developed by military, Japanese been strong venerable. survey instrument reviewed have content validity, pilot-tested ascertain student aspirations awareness. Subjects, 111 Guamanian university 131 women, were surveyed. Findings suggest that both groups more likely go college soon after finishing high school graduate from in four years. Both willing sense self-worth self-satisfaction through working earning income show similar preference regarding selection, spite characteristics. However, findings this sample also professional perceive higher discrimination promotion than do women. large number had part time jobs many them children regardless marital status. By contrast, most full students not married yet. For such actions as getting 20s or 30s having child contributed for profitable job becoming mentor next generation selection. Contains 6 tables data, 42 references, 3 figures. (BT) Reproductions supplied EDRS best can made original document. Undergraduate Women's Gender Awareness Status Aspirations Yukiko Inoue, Ph.D. University DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS EDUC TIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION Office Educational Research Improvement DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND rma) BEEN GRANTED BY CENTER (ERIC) This document reproduced received person organization C4r) Yi.S.iX_o_lianue. originating it. Minor changes improve reproduction quality. rmmi THE EDUCATIONAL Points view opinions stated necessarily represent M 1 official OERI position policy. O College Education OUOG station, Mangilao, 96923 Phone: 671-735-2447 Fax: 671-734-3651 E-mail: yinoue@uog.edu Paper presented at 1999 Mid-South Association Annual Meeting, Point Clear, Alabama, November 17-19, 1999.