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Wilson, Dolly Smith – Gender and Education, 2007
The interwar decades saw a bitter recruiting war between the NUT (National Union of Teachers), the National Union of Women Teachers (NUWT), and the National Association of Schoolmasters (NAS), which like the NUWT broke away from the NUT in the early 1920s. The NAS opposed the NUT's official policy shift to support equal pay for male and female…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Power Structure, Unions
Jha, Jyotsna, Kelleher, Fatimah – Commonwealth of Learning, 2006
Gender disparity in education has usually been experienced as disadvantaging girls. Although this continues to be the case in many places, the phenomenon of boys' underachievement--both in terms of participation and performance--has also become an issue in a number of countries. This book reviews the research on boys' underachievement and presents…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Underachievement, Foreign Countries, Case Studies