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Wilkinson, Joann; Warin, Jo – Gender and Education, 2022
Currently, 3% of the early year's education workforce is male, a figure that has remained stubbornly resistant to change over the last four decades. Research has shown that support is key to increasing the number of male employees in this sector. In recent years, there has been an increase in the demand for male-only support activities, such as…
Descriptors: Males, Early Childhood Education, Gender Issues, Labor Force Development
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Lewis, Colin J.; Roberts, Simon J.; Andrews, Hazel – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the provision of formal coach education. However, research has repeatedly demonstrated how coach education has had a limited impact on the learning and development of coach practitioners. To date however, these investigations have avoided female coach populations. Ten women football coaches…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Team Sports, Semi Structured Interviews, Gender Discrimination
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Azzarito, Laura; Hill, Joanne – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2013
Background: Young people's health status and level of physical activity participation are pressing issues in many Western countries, yet social, economic, and educational inequalities in local spaces remain under-theorized. In the USA and the UK, ethnic-minority girls have been identified as the least physically active and as having the worst…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Human Body, Physical Activity Level
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Younger, Michael Robert; Warrington, Molly – American Educational Research Journal, 2006
The gender agenda in many North American, Western European, and Australasian countries has undergone a "boy turn" in the past decade amid growing concerns about boys' apparent "underachievement" relative to girls. One aspect of this turn has been the resurrection of interest in single-sex classes in coeducational public state…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Public Schools, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries