Re: updating Lever

genevieve patthey-chavez (ggpcinla who-is-at yahoo.com)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 08:10:39 -0700 (PDT)

Candy Goodman worked on the question and presented some
more updated findings at the Berkeley Conference on
Women & Language. I don't remember the year, 1995?
There should be an edited volume.

Genevieve

--- Mike Cole <mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> 20 years ago Janet Lever conducted an observational
> study of elementary
> school-aged kids on a playground and concluded that
> boys play more complex
> games (defined as games with rules, pretty much)
> than girls and play
> in bigger groups.
>
> I have found one subsequent study by Borman and
> someone which reaches
> a similar conclusion. 1987
>
> Matter closed, or is there any more research on this
> topic? All I
> have been able to find is studies of video games and
> gender differences.
> That is an interesting topic but difficult to play
> back on the earlier
> work.... or has it been done?
>
> Wondering
>
> mike
>
>

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