Gender-Related Knowledge Variations within Geography

Investigates geography knowledge in junior high through undergraduate college level males and females and reports males out performed females in all aspects of geography knowledge and map skills. The gap widened with increased education and was still significant after accounting for numerous persona...

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Published in:Sex roles 1997-05, Vol.36 (9-10), p.605-623
Main Authors: Henrie, Roger L, Aron, Robert H, Nelson, Burton D, Poole, Debra A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
College Students
Comparative Analysis
Course Content
Cultural Influences
Cultural Pluralism
Developmental psychology
Education
Educational Change
Females
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gender differences
Gender Issues
Geodemographics
Geography
Geography Instruction
Grade 8
High School Students
Human geography
Individual Differences
Junior High School Students
Junior High Schools
Knowledge
Knowledge Level
Majors (Students)
Males
Map Skills
Michigan
Middle schools
Physical Environment
Postsecondary Education
Psychologists
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reading Habits
Resistance (Psychology)
Secondary Education
Secondary schools
Sex Differences
Society
Spatial Ability
Student Surveys
Students
Surveys
Undergraduate Students
Young Adults
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Summary:Investigates geography knowledge in junior high through undergraduate college level males and females and reports males out performed females in all aspects of geography knowledge and map skills. The gap widened with increased education and was still significant after accounting for numerous personal information items. Knowledge-based and nonknowledge-based explanations for the gender difference are discussed. (GR)
ISSN:0360-0025
1573-2762
DOI:10.1023/a:1025618024694