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Ikonen, Hanna-Mari; Korvajärvi, Päivi – Gender and Education, 2023
Based on the identification of the discourse of choice in debates on neoliberalism, meritocracy and post-feminism, this article analyses how highly educated mothers position themselves within the discourse of choice and use "choice" as their discursive resource when reflecting on how their demanding careers combine with motherhood. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Researchers, Neoliberalism
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Ahsan Ur Rehman; Muhammad Ilyas Khan; Uzma Dayan; Syed Munir Ahmad – Gender and Education, 2024
Women's empowerment is an important goal of the educational processes around the world. Women in developing countries need support and motivation for attaining higher education and empowerment. This qualitative-exploratory study sought to explore the perceptions of Pakistani female university academics living inside predominantly patriarchal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Women Faculty, Teacher Empowerment, Teacher Motivation
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Alhawsawi, Sajjadllah; Jawhar, Sabria Salama – Gender and Education, 2023
The Saudi 2030 vision states it is committed to empowering women through education and employment, but the literature scarcely addresses their everyday realities. This paper utilises a critical realist perspective to examine the mechanisms emerging from the interplay of structural and cultural factors that impact women's empowerment concerning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empowerment, Womens Education, Females
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Halagao, Patricia Espiritu; Kaomea, Julie – Gender and Education, 2018
Girl Scouts aims to foster leadership by encouraging girls to discover themselves, make connections, and take action to make the world better. This paper chronicles the five-year journey of eight professional mothers of color who sought to provide their daughters with a space to 'think and live differently' as Girl Scouts and young women of color…
Descriptors: Youth Clubs, Females, Mothers, Daughters
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Sinha Mukherjee, Sucharita – Gender and Education, 2015
This paper attempts to explore the connections between expanding female education and the participation of women in paid employment in Japan, China and India, three of Asia's largest economies. Analysis based on existing data and literature shows that despite the large expansion in educational access in these countries in the last half century,…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Females, Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies
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Berges, Sandrine – Gender and Education, 2013
An important part of making philosophy as a discipline gender equal is to ensure that female authors are not simply wiped out of the history of philosophy. This has implications for teaching as well as research. In this context, I reflect on my experience of teaching a text by medieval philosopher Christine de Pizan as part of an introductory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Philosophy, Gender Bias, Sex Fairness
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Baker, Sally; Brown, Brian – Gender and Education, 2009
This paper reports the results of a small-scale narrative study of men and women who grew up in mid-twentieth-century rural Wales, and their reminiscences regarding women and education. Although the dominant image of Wales during that era is that of a male-dominated society, all of our participants remembered influential independent women and…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Family Life, Foreign Countries
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Oram, Alison – Gender and Education, 2007
In this article, the author focuses on the women of the National Union of Women Teachers (NUWT) who were a particularly important group of professional women workers, whose politics illuminated themes which were current in the feminist history-writing of the 1980s and 1990s. What the author found particularly striking about the feminist teachers…
Descriptors: Feminism, Activism, Employed Women, Unions
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Hey, Valerie – Gender and Education, 2006
Recently I gave a presentation on class, success and subjectivity. One response was that I should "Get over it". This comment informs the following discussion exploring some contradictory views about speaking personally in relation to class experience. There is a continual need to review the feminist mantra of the "personal is political". Does…
Descriptors: Feminism, Social Class, Gender Bias, Working Class
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Greany, Kate – Gender and Education, 2008
Participatory literacy programmes in developing countries are often seen as an important tool for women's empowerment and equality. This article problematises the way in which evaluation of progress towards these goals is couched in a linear trajectory, and often fails to uncover the messy reality of women's negotiations to achieve their own aims.…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Sex Stereotypes, Females, Foreign Countries
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Acker, Sandra; Dillabough, Jo-Anne – Gender and Education, 2007
This article reflects an interest in exposing links between women's academic work and the gender codes which organize and shape working life in the university context, both now and in the recent past, as a contribution to the sociology of women's work. Our specific focus is the gendered division of labour in teacher education in universities in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Employed Women, Women Faculty
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Mahony, Karen; Van Toen, Brett – Gender and Education, 1990
Discusses the increasing exclusion of women from the higher levels of computing. Recommends changes in the content and focus of computer science curricula that might encourage greater participation by women. Describes how this would benefit the computer industry. (DM)
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computers, Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Aveling, Nado – Gender and Education, 2002
Longitudinally examined how young Australian women who attended school during an era of equal opportunity made career decisions and perceived their unfolding lives. Respondents considered themselves active agents in constructing their own futures, and gender did not control their destinies. While they succeeded on male terms, many competing…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females
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Henwood, Flis – Gender and Education, 1996
Examines Women into Science and Engineering (WISE) discourse and explains why WISE has had limited success. It argues the WISE discourse limits the space women have to speak of the conflicts and contradictions they experience, and suggests the need for a greater understanding of how subjective experiences of gender and sexuality impinge upon work…
Descriptors: Career Development, Decision Making, Discourse Analysis, Employed Women
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Blickenstaff, Jacob Clark – Gender and Education, 2005
Women are under-represented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) majors and careers in most industrialized countries around the world. This paper explores the broad array of explanations for the absence of women in STEM put forth in the literature of the last 30 years. It is argued that some proposed explanations are without…
Descriptors: Females, Science Careers, Science Education, Employed Women
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