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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 May 2020
This article serves two purposes. It is an account of field testing two instructional units in the APSA text series “Citizenship and Change: Women and American Politics” and it is a report of original research findings produced by students who used the units. In the course of reading about the changing place of American women in the political System and then researching questions raised by their reading, students surprised themselves. They learned to evaluate their own attitudes and the socialization processes leading to them, while they found that they could tackle practical research problems successfully.
GINT 202, Policies and Functions of American Government, is a course which I have treated as an “introductory seminar” on important policy questions and the political system's response to them.
1 “GINT” is the University's acronym for the Department of Government and International Studies.
2 My thanks to Kathleen Frankovic of CBS News for kindly supplying me with this information in a personal communication.
3 The five questions used were “Some people feel that women should have an equal role with men in running business, industry and government. Others feel that women's place is in the home“; ”…What's your opinion of the influence women have as a group…?“; “Women can best overcome discrimination by pursuing their career goals in as feminine a way as possible…or…women must work together to change laws and customs that are unfair to all women“; “men have more of the top jobs because they are born with more drive to be ambitious and successful than women… or…Men have more jobs because our society discriminates against women“; the “Women's liberation movement feeling thermometer“; and “Do you favor or oppose the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution?” While the students complained to me about what they saw as artificial and/or forced choices, they did provide answers to the questions. Scores on each question were added together to form a summary score; specific coding procedures can be found in any CPS/SRC Election Study codebook. The findings are presented for illustrative purpose only.