Integrating a Gender Equity Lens: Shifting and Broadening the Focus of Women's Centers on College Campuses

Brief alcohol interventions are an effective strategy for reducing harmful and risky alcohol use and misuse. Many effective brief alcohol interventions include information and advice about an individual’s alcohol use, changing their use, and assistance in developing strategies and goals to help reduce their use. Emerging research suggests that brief interventions can also be expanded to address multiple health outcomes; recognizing that the flexible nature of these approaches can be helpful in tailoring information to specific population groups. This scoping review synthesizes evidence on the inclusion of sex and gender in brief alcohol interventions on college campuses, highlighting available evidence on gender responsiveness in these interventions. Furthermore, this scoping review offers strategies on how brief alcohol interventions can be gender transformative, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions as harm reduction and prevention strategies, and in promoting gender equity.

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Gender Gaps in Undergraduate Fields of Study: Do College Characteristics Matter?

Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World ◽

10.1177/2378023118789566 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 237802311878956 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ann L. Mullen ◽

Jayne Baker

Keyword(s):

Gender Equity ◽

Gender Segregation ◽

College Campuses ◽

Institutional Commitment ◽

Peer Culture ◽

Student Body ◽

Gender Gaps ◽

Individual Level ◽

Fields Of Study ◽

Bachelor's Degrees

Despite gender parity in earned bachelor’s degrees, large gender gaps persist across fields of study. The dominant explanatory framework in this area of research assesses how gender differences in individual-level attributes predict gaps in major choice. The authors argue that individualistic accounts cannot provide a complete explanation because they fail to consider the powerful effects of the gendered institutional environments that inform and shape young men’s and women’s choices. The authors propose a cultural-organizational approach that considers how institutional characteristics and cultural contexts on college campuses may influence gendered choices and thus be associated with patterns of gender segregation across fields of study. The results of an analysis of institutional data on all U.S. degree-granting colleges and universities reveal substantial interinstitutional variation in gender segregation. Furthermore, structural and contextual institutional features related to peer culture, curricular focus, institutional commitment to gender equity, and the gender proportionality of the student body correlate with heightened or diminished levels of segregation.

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Retention of Women and People of Color: Unique Challenges and Institutional Responses

Journal of College Student Retention Research Theory & Practice ◽

10.2190/5hv3-bwm2-7d0u-7xbt ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 1-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Carol Couvillion Landry

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Gender Equity ◽

Student Persistence ◽

College Campuses ◽

People Of Color ◽

Curricular Reform ◽

Difficult Time ◽

Institutional Responses ◽

Key Variables ◽

Made In

A literature review on retention as it relates explicitly to women and people of color suggests that specific and unique factors play a part in student persistence. Despite the gains made in enrollment on college campuses, this group of students seems to have a particularly difficult time completing degree requirements. This article reflects on key variables that affect persistence in this group of students as well as institutional responses to the retention problem. Also, the need for curricular reform to address the experiences of minorities and women and the need for gender equity in the classroom are discussed.

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