Forum on Public Policy
VOLUME 1 NUMBER
2 WINTER 2005
Contents
Gender Equity and the Rise of
Universal Public Education 1
Kern Alexander
Gender and the Brain: Can Intellectual
Abilities Be Defined by 20
Jennifer Musa
Addressing the Leadership Gap: Preparing
Gifted Women to Take
41
Their Rightful
Places on the World Stage
Zoa
Rockenstein
Personal and Collective Efficacy: Critical Components of Women’s 57
Leadership in Higher Education
Gypsy
M. Denzine
The Right to be:
African American Women and the Struggle for Human and 80
Civil Rights in
the United States
Diana L. Hayes
Leadership as Shared Dignity 96
Judith
Bowker
Transforming Communities: An Examination of a
Womanist Paradigm 109
and its Universality in Human Rights
Antoinette Ellis-Williams
Thirty Years of Title IX: A Review of Gender Equity in American Education 129
Leila Brammer
The Impact of Sports on Adolescent Development: The Importance of Title IX 153
Dana C. Jack
Women
in Academia: An Analysis of their Expectations, Performance and Pay 160
Sonia Dalmia,
Daniel C. Giedeman, Helen A. Klein, Nancy M. Levenburg