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Direct linkTess Howard – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
This paper reports the findings of a mixed-methods study which investigates the socio-cultural impacts of UK gendered school sport uniform and the role uniform plays in shaping female school sport experiences. Drawing on an extensive analytical survey with over 400 women of all-ages and 8 interviews with women aged 18-24, it explores how school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dress Codes, School Uniforms, Secondary School Students
Edwards, Torrie K.; Marshall, Catherine – Gender and Education, 2020
Student dress codes are controversial school policy in US schools. As dress codes were initially established with the intent to eliminate the appearance of differences among students and mitigate gang violence in schools, legal research has paid extensive attention to the value and constitutionality of these policies. Education research, however,…
Descriptors: Dress Codes, Public Schools, School Policy, Educational Policy
Küçükakin, Pinar Mercan; Engin-Demir, Cennet – Critical Studies in Education, 2022
The present study analyzes discursive practices that work to construct particular female identities and re/construct gender inequalities in Turkish educational system. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was utilized to analyze 124 publicly available educational policy documents directly related to gender in education. Additionally, CDA was applied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Educational Policy, Gender Bias
Whitman, Gretchen Marie – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2020
The absence of comprehensive educational theory regarding dress codes results in deference to community norms as a way to determine implementation and compliance. Implementing dress codes ultimately results in inconsistent practices and violations of students' rights. To the detriment to student learning, dress codes disproportionately affect…
Descriptors: Dress Codes, Student Rights, Females, Minority Group Students
Wilmot, Jennifer M.; Migliarini, Valentina; Ancy Annamma, Subini – Educational Policy, 2021
Black girls' experiences with sexual harassment in schools remain critically understudied. To mediate this void, this study explored the role of educators and school policy as disrupting or perpetuating racialized sexual harassment toward them. Using a disability critical race theory (DisCrit) framework, we argue educator response and education…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, African American Students, Females, Educational Environment
Morris, Edward W.; Perry, Brea L. – Sociology of Education, 2017
School disciplinary processes are an important mechanism of inequality in education. Most prior research in this area focuses on the significantly higher rates of punishment among African American boys, but in this article, we turn our attention to the discipline of African American girls. Using advanced multilevel models and a longitudinal data…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Racial Differences, Gender Bias, Racial Bias
Pomerantz, Shauna – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2007
In this article I explore the gendered assumptions in the new generation of dress codes that have swept through North American schools in response to how girls are dressing these days. Through a feminist poststructural examination of a particular case in Langley, British Columbia, I locate three contradictory discourses in one school's dress code…
Descriptors: Females, Dress Codes, Foreign Countries, Sexuality
