This article is based on a multi-site study of teachers in elite private schools in Australia. Teachers' accounts from this study bring nuance to the reasons one might short-handedly expect they have in working for these exclusive institutions. It is not that everyday motivations don't matter, for example, the financial compensations, the…

Since the 1960s the higher educational system in the United States has steadily lost its single-sex colleges; and as of 2008 only 51 women's and four men's institutions remain (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2008). Many of the previous single-sex schools have admitted members of the opposite sex, giving in to the national trend of…

Male and female college students in Saudi Arabia study and work in a segregated (gender-based) environment. King Saud University (KSU) has 50,000 students on 3 campuses each of which is 35 kms away (Diri'ya Male-Students, Campus, Olaysha Female-Students Campus and Malaz Female-students Campus). Due to increasing student enrolment, all departments…

Reports on a study of the social construction of gender differences in classroom interactions during the first five years of a former women's college's transition to coeducation. Finds that the classroom interaction patterns of male and female professors and students were altered considerably by the transition. (CFR)