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McKnight, Lucinda – Gender and Education, 2015
While the issue of boys' dominance of the curriculum has a long history, the article examines this phenomenon in a contemporary context, through an empirical study with female teachers designing English curriculum around girls' media in a coeducational secondary school in Victoria, Australia. In this space, teachers, and the researcher, produce…
Descriptors: Females, Women Faculty, Curriculum, Secondary Schools
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Hill, Joanne – Gender and Education, 2015
Within physical education and sport, girls must navigate discourses of valued athletic and gendered bodies that marginalise or "other" non-normative performances through systems of surveillance and punishment. The purpose of this paper is to share girls' perspectives on how these discourses affected their gender performances and activity…
Descriptors: Females, Human Body, Foreign Countries, Physical Education
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Karpiak, Christie P.; Buchanan, James P.; Hosey, Megan; Smith, Allison – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2007
We conducted an archival study at a coeducational Catholic university to test the proposition that single-sex secondary education predicts lasting differences in college majors. Men from single-sex schools were more likely to both declare and graduate in gender-neutral majors than those from coeducational schools. Women from single-sex schools…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), High Schools, Gender Differences, Gender Issues