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Catalina Rey-Guerra; Aisha K. Yousafzai; Eric Dearing – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
Gender differences in early childhood development are under-researched in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where almost 90% of the world's young children live. This study examines the direction, magnitude, and variation of gender similarities and differences in 3- and 4-year-olds' early childhood development in 71 low- and middle-income…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Gender Differences, Child Development
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Mara De Giusti Bordignon; Melody Viczko – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted academic labour, with women being disproportionately negatively affected. This scoping review provides an exploratory snapshot into the corpus of literature investigating the impact of the pandemic on academic labour. We used a set of criteria to first identify the 86 titles from which we selected 45 as the data…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Women Faculty, Gender Bias
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Amirtham S., Nithiya; Kumar, Amardeep – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research are globally recognised as engines of growth and development and indicators of citizens' well-being. Studies have continuously highlighted the unequal access and participation in STEM higher education based on class, caste, gender, disability and other markers of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation, Access to Education
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Steinmann, Isa; Strello, Andrés; Strietholt, Rolf – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2023
We investigated effects of tracking students into higher, more academic, and lower, less academic, school types immediately after primary school (early tracking) instead of having a comprehensive secondary school system (late tracking) on school gender segregation and gender gaps in achievement outcomes. We assumed that, in early tracking…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Gender Differences, Gender Bias, Secondary Education
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Borkowski, Artur; Ortiz Correa, Javier Santiago; Bundy, Donald A. P.; Burbano, Carmen; Hayashi, Chika; Lloyd-Evans, Edward; Neitzel, Jutta; Reuge, Nicolas – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
In 2019, 135 million people in 55 countries were in food crises or worse, and 2 billion people did not have regular access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food. COVID-19 has exacerbated these hardships and may result in an additional 121 million people facing acute food insecurity by the end of 2020. Further, since the beginning of the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Nutrition
UNICEF, 2021
Significant progress has been made to close gender gaps in education over the last 25 years. Nevertheless, gender inequalities persist and education remains elusive for many girls. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) estimates that 11.2 million girls and young women may drop out or not have access to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Females, Womens Education, Gender Bias
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Gabriel, Deborah – Gender and Education, 2021
The articles in this themed issue explore global educational experiences that embrace various cultures, traditions, religions and identities. Collectively this work offers valuable insights into unexplored areas of research, illuminating issues that intersect across race, ethnicity and gender. The significance of these studies lies in the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Race, Ethnicity, Power Structure
Mays, Tony, Ed.; Singh, Rajiv Kumar, Ed. – Commonwealth of Learning, 2020
At any one time, about 300 million children of school going age are not in school. Experience indicates that when schooling is disrupted, whether by a pandemic, a natural disaster or other reasons, not all children return to the classroom. In addition, most countries have growing numbers of young people who have not completed schooling, or not…
Descriptors: Out of School Youth, Access to Education, Open Educational Resources, Student Needs
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Bozkurt, Aras; Jung, Insung; Xiao, Junhong; Vladimirschi, Viviane; Schuwer, Robert; Egorov, Gennady; Lambert, Sarah R.; Al-Freih, Maha; Pete, Judith; Olcott, Don, Jr.; Rodes, Virginia; Aranciaga, Ignacio; Bali, Maha; Alvarez, Abel V., Jr.; Roberts, Jennifer; Pazurek, Angelica; Raffaghelli, Juliana Elisa; Panagiotou, Nikos; de Coëtlogon, Perrine; Shahadu, Sadik; Brown, Mark; Asino, Tutaleni I.; Tumwesige, Josephine; Reyes, Tzinti Ramírez; Ipenza, Emma Barrios; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Bond, Melissa; Belhamel, Kamel; Irvine, Valerie; Sharma, Ramesh C.; Adam, Taskeen; Janssen, Ben; Sklyarova, Tatiana; Olcott, Nicoleta; Ambrosino, Alejandra; Lazou, Chrysoula; Mocquet, Bertrand; Mano, Mattias; Paskevicius, Michael – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2020
Uncertain times require prompt reflexes to survive and this study is a collaborative reflex to better understand uncertainty and navigate through it. The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic hit hard and interrupted many dimensions of our lives, particularly education. As a response to interruption of education due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this study…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Elementary Secondary Education
Chavatzia, Theophania; Engel, Laura; Hastedt, Dirk – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2016
Girls and women, especially the most vulnerable, are more likely to be excluded from education than their male counterparts. Exclusion and gender disparities in access to and performance in education are also observed among immigrant children, with immigrant girls often being the most disadvantaged. Data from the International Association for the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Females, Gender Differences, Gender Bias
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2016
The third "Global Report on Adult Learning and Education" ("GRALE III") draws on monitoring surveys completed by 139 UNESCO Member States to develop a differentiated picture of the global state of adult learning and education (ALE). It evaluates countries' progress in fulfilling the commitments they made in the Belém Framework…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Health, Well Being
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Morley, Louise – Gender and Education, 2013
This paper engages with Diana Leonard's writing on how gender is constituted in the academy. It offers an international review of feminist knowledge on how gender and power interact with leadership in higher education. It interrogates the "leaderist turn" or how leadership has developed into a popular descriptor and a dominant social and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Leadership, Females, Feminism
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Miller, David I.; Eagly, Alice H.; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
In the past 40 years, the proportion of women in science courses and careers has dramatically increased in some nations but not in others. Our research investigated how national differences in women's science participation related to gender-science stereotypes that associate science with men more than women. Data from ~350,000 participants in 66…
Descriptors: Females, Science Education, Scientists, Career Choice
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Laborda Castillo, Leopoldo; Sotelsek Salem, Daniel; Sarr, Leopold Remi – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2014
In this article, the authors analyze the effect of poverty, social exclusion, and child labor on out-of-school rates for female children. This empirical study is based on a dynamic panel model for a sample of 216 countries over the period 1970 to 2010. Results based on the generalized method of moments (GMM) of Arellano and Bond (1991) and the…
Descriptors: Poverty, Social Isolation, Child Labor, Females
UNICEF, 2019
The gap between the levels of learning that education systems are providing and what children, communities and economies need, is growing. The breadth and depth of this learning crisis constitute the greatest global challenge to preparing children and adolescents for life, work and active citizenship. The lesson of the learning crisis is clear:…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Student Needs, Educational Quality, Educational Methods
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