Summarizes a report offering over 270 recommendations for action toward equity at the individual, classroom, institutional, and policy levels. Describes the classroom context of myriad small inequities and emphasizes that professors need expertise, resources, and training to achieve sex equity. A sample recommendation was to intervene when…

Examines research about home and school relations to analyze the author's experiences as a parent activist in an urban public school, using the activity of nitpicking as both a literal explanation and metaphoric representation of the ways that women's responsibilities for maintaining children's emotional and physical wellbeing interfere with the…

Argues for the educational reform movement to include equity as an equal and serious component in the excellence movement. Describes the prevailing atmosphere of schools and school research and shows its male preference. Outlines the ways females as students, teachers, and administrators, are a gender at risk in American schools today. Includes 12…

The expansion of higher education in the 19th century United States to include women both restricted and increased their freedom. Because the industrial revolution and the movement westward limited the availability of men, the "moral guardian" role society prescribed for women was logically extended to teaching. The reason, however, for…

When considering educational improvement, there are several enormous challenges external to schools that must be faced, including rapid changes in economics and technology, the vast growth of knowledge, and global ecological problems. This article addresses weaknesses and opportunities for change in Finnish primary schools, analyzing the current…

This guide provides an overview of the Expanding Options workshops, a comprehensive sex equity training package for all segments of the K-12 educational community. Addressed to program coordinators, this booklet serves as a companion to eight Facilitator's Guides, each of which details workshops for a different section of the intended audience.…

Research documents that gender-specific differences in educational experiences have a disproportionately negative effect on girls' academic performance, career goals, self-confidence, and accomplishments later in life. Cites demographic facts and outlines three steps school boards can take to improve the educational experience of all children,…

Two hundred years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft, the English women's rights pioneer, published her immortal work: "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." In it she placed much of the blame for women's inferior political, intellectual, and social status on "faulty education." In "Vindication," she offered a number of…

The persistent barriers to women's educational equity in educational administration may be eliminated through this project, which describes the development of an instrument for department self-assessment of sex equity and a model for institutional change. The procedures for developing, testing, and disseminating the instrument for self-assessment…

Examines some reasons why not all students are afforded equal opportunities to acquire technology skills. Identifies three main impediments to technological equalization: gender bias, geographic and socio-economic biases, and racial bias. Attempts to show how these biases work to prevent students from receiving equal opportunities to master…

The advent of gender equity in schools has not been much easier than the advent of equality of educational opportunity for other atypical segments of the school population. Three common types of inequitable treatment of female students are gender bias in the classroom, exclusion of females from traditionally male activities, and sexual harassment.…

The demographics of American schools are changing. While the actual number of school children has declined, the proportion of minority students, poor students, and students from one parent families has grown steadily. Education must be reformed to address these populations with equity. Strategies which have been adopted, such as more student…

A new world view, emerging from the women's movement and women's studies, emphasizes the interdependence of all people and the interdependence of people and nature. This feminist world view could provide the philosophical framework necessary for transforming the curriculum to help bring about greater social, economic, and political equality and…

Sets the current public debate about gender and schooling in England into a historical and a United Kingdom-wide context, addressing the highly politicized context in which educational research on gender has taken place over the past 20 years, discussing the feminization of teaching, and examining attacks on English schools for failing boys as a…

The political and social changes occurring in South Africa make issues of training researchers more urgent and more complicated. Capacity building in nongovernment organizations and problems in training to overcome race and gender inequities are reviewed. (SLD)