Gender-Based Expectations, Perceptions and Attitudes of Turkish Teachers Toward Their Male and Female Students

Abstract

This study was aimed at investigating the gender-based expectations, perceptions, and attitudes o f a sample of 100 teachers randomly selected from four middle-status anatolian, super, and normal public lycees located in the metropolitan region of Ankara, the capital of Turkey. Results o f the study indicated that there are significant differences between the occupations that the teachers considered to be appropriate for their male and female students, betweeen and adjectives that the teachers attributed to their male and female students, between the academic areas that the teachers considered their male and female students have an ability in, and between the factors that the teachers identified as the causes for failure and success of their male and female students. More importantly the results o f this study indicated that the teachers’ expectations, perceptions, and attitudes toward their male and female students significantly reflect the underlying features of traditional gender discrimination.