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Al Jayyousi-Alsalim G. F.; Alsayed Hassan D.; Khaled S. M.; Zolezzi M.; O'Hara L.; Daher-Nashif S.; Alhaija E. S.; Kane T.; Al-Wattary N.; Abidia R. F.; Al Hadeethi T. T. A.; Abdul Rahim H. F.; Morris L. D. – SAGE Open, 2024
Academic life in the present era is subject to several occupational stressors, including increased workloads, reduced research funding, tenuous career paths, and family-work conflicts. Such stressors affect academics' quality of life, wellbeing, and job satisfaction, and women are particularly vulnerable. There is, however, a dearth of information…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Well Being, Females
Langsten, Ray – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
Egypt promises "education for all". Primary attendance and completion have increased substantially. Still, many children remain out of school. There remain questions about the quality of education. Since the early 1990s, community-based education (CBE) has been part of Egypt's educational programme. Community-based education is meant to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Place Based Education, Equal Education, Out of School Youth
Murphy-Graham, Erin; Lloyd, Cynthia – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
This article proposes a conceptual framework for how education can promote adolescent girls' empowerment and, by mapping the field, highlights promising examples of empowering education programs. We conclude by identifying both research and programmatic opportunities for the future that will harness the expertise of a range of specialists from the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Middle School Students, Student Empowerment
Morley, Louise – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
Drawing on data gathered from British Council seminars in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Dubai on "Absent Talent: Women in Research and Academic Leadership" (2012-2013), this paper discusses academic women's experiences and explanations for women's under-representation as knowledge leaders and producers in the global academy. Participants from…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Women Faculty, Instructional Leadership, Females
Henry, Hani M. – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2010
Many psychology instructors approach the topic of gender with considerable resistance and apprehension. Some professors may be reluctant to incorporate gender issues into their psychology courses due to their fear of altering their teaching practices. Others may be unable to present their views on gender in an unbiased way, so they avoid…
Descriptors: Arabs, Psychology, Cultural Influences, Gender Issues
El-Halawany, Hanan Salah El-Deen – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2009
This research aims to compare the effect of higher education on some Upper Egyptian women's practice of self autonomy at both work and home. The most important revelation this research makes is the fact that although no one can deny the importance and significance of higher education to Upper Egyptian women, yet it failed to challenge the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Females, Foreign Countries, Personal Autonomy
Zedan, Shoroke H. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2007
The structure and admission policy of secondary and postsecondary education in Egypt constitutes a culture of great prestige in general school and university education, as opposed to vocational school and technical education. Youth mainly from rural and underdeveloped urban areas enroll in technical education. Because of poverty, many girls and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Urban Areas, Rural Areas, Educational Change
Assaad, Marie; Bruce, Judith – SEEDS, 1997
Until recently in Egyptian society, girls--from the point when their schooling ends to marriage--existed in a social void. In Maqattam, the situation is changing as a unique intervention has begun to define alternative expectations and opportunities for adolescent girls, providing them with a bridge between childhood and marriage and childbearing.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Development, Economic Development
Swanson, Julie Hanson – 1999
New Horizons is a nonschool program that demystifies and communicates essential information on basic life skills and reproductive health to Egyptian girls and young women aged 9-20. The program consists of 100 hour-long sessions, each including an introduction to a specific topic, review of group knowledge level, discussion around key points…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Daily Living Skills, Disadvantaged