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Asimeng-Boahene, Lewis – Education, 2006
Over the past years, a large body of scholarly literature has developed to address gender inequity in the developed world, and suggestions for reducing the gender gap are well documented in the literature. However, still lacking in research is why there is gender inequity in mathematics and science education in African schools. Girls are not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Mathematics Education, Gender Bias
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Cross, Karen J. – Religious Education, 2003
Contemporary White cultural bias is a complex social pattering and possessiveness rooted in unchallenged assumptions and privileged status arising from historic and structural racism, classism, sexism, and suburbanism. A church school curriculum that reflects only the experience, language, and culture of writers, editors, and illustrators raised…
Descriptors: Whites, Middle Class, Suburbs, Disproportionate Representation
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Cortez, David Sifuentes – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2004
This article examines the participation of women in decision-making processes in the field of education, from a global perspective, through their roles and positions in International Conferences on Education (ICEs). This analysis is based on a sample of sixteen of the forty-six ICEs held from 1934 to this day. All of the ICEs that took place over…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Females
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Albin, Judith A.; Dungy, Gwendolyn Jordan – New Directions for Student Services, 2005
This chapter reflects on the simultaneous journeys of two women, one a lesbian and one an ally. One woman is a midlevel manager in student affairs while the other is the executive director of a national association.
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Leadership Responsibility, Work Experience
American Political Science Association (NJ1), 2005
In March 2004, the National Science Foundation funded a two-day workshop by the American Political Science Association (APSA) on the advancement of women in academic political science in the United States. The workshop was prompted by an alarming stall in the number of women entering the discipline and persisting through early years of faculty…
Descriptors: Workshops, Females, Tenure, Social Scientists
Goodman, Irene F. – Online Submission, 2002
The Women's Experiences in College Engineering (WECE) project is the first cross-institutional, longitudinal examination of undergraduate women's experiences and persistence in engineering majors. The study was funded by both the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and conducted by Goodman Research Group, Inc. (GRG), a…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Program Evaluation, Women Scientists, Engineering
Goodman, Irene F. – Online Submission, 2002
The Women's Experiences in College Engineering (WECE) project is the first cross-institutional, longitudinal examination of undergraduate women's experiences and persistence in engineering majors. The study was funded by both the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and conducted by Goodman Research Group, Inc. (GRG), a…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Program Evaluation, Women Scientists, Academic Persistence
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