Inhalt: "The purpose of this study was to determine if gender plays a role in the quality
and quantity of the advice given to undergraduates about applying to graduate school.
Four hundred male and female psychologists who listed a university address and e-mail
address in the 1997 Directory of the American Psychological Association were sent
an e-mail inquiry from a pseudostudent (either Theresa or Brian Miller). In the first
e-mail, the pseudostudent asked if the subjects would be willing to look at his or
her GRE scores and grade point average (GPA) for the purpose of providing advice about
his or her chances of getting into the graduate program at the subject's school. Two
hundred forty subjects consented to examine the figures, nearly equally split between
males and females. Subjects were then sent the GPA and scores of an outstanding, average,
or poor applicant. The results indicated that female faculty were significantly more
likely to consent to examine the data of a female pseudostudent and male faculty were
significantly more likely to consent to examine the data of a male pseudostudent.
However, once the faculty member agreed to offer advice, gender had no impact on the
length or quality of advice given to the pseudostudent, and advice became a function
of the pseudostudent's academic credentials. Furthermore, while male and female subjects
were equally likely to encourage, discourage, or recant on their offer to give feedback,
male subjects were more likely to refuse to review the data and female subjects were
more likely to offer a neutral response to the data. The results are discussed in
terms of the difficulty students face in finding adequate information about pursuing
a graduate education. These problems may be magnified for female students because
there are fewer female faculty available to serve as mentors." (author's abstract)|
Schlagwörter:Frauenforschung; Hochschullehrer; Mentoring; Psychologie; Student
CEWS Kategorie:Studium und Studierende, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz