The underrepresentation of gender in journalism education has emerged as a significant concern in both academic and professional spheres. Through a systematic literature review, 41 articles were extracted in October 2023 from Scopus, EbscoHost, and ProQuest databases. The study identified three key challenges: underrepresentation of gender,…

This article is a review of current research on Black women preservice teachers (BWPSTs) in the United States. This review explores teacher education literature, focusing on how Black women have been characterized. In particular, this review found that BWPSTs have occupied an absent presence in teacher education literature by often being present…

Thirty years into democracy and the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields remain dominated by white men in South African universities. The government and higher education institutions (HEIs) are dedicated to transforming these fields to be representative of the African majority, yet they remain politicised, racialised,…

A longstanding failure to achieve racial and ethnic equity in STEM doctoral programs in the United States exists alongside a research landscape struggling to comprehensively explain this enduring failure. Towards a comprehensive explanatory model of STEM doctoral persistence and disruption of this failure, I previously proposed critical capital…

This study examines whether the National Science Foundation's ADVANCE-IT grant program identifies and funds institutions that improve faculty gender equity. By using matching procedures and a two-way fixed-effect event study, we find that when universities received ADVANCE-IT grants, their proportion and headcount of women faculty as full-time…

Although many students exhibit interest and demonstrate academic preparedness in math and science, a significant proportion of students do not major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. These students encounter systemic barriers to STEM opportunities related to their intersecting gender and racial/ethnic identities.…

STEM is an exclusionary space for queer and trans* students of color (QTSOCs). A critical site of justice-oriented transformation to enhance support for QTSOCs is mathematics education, which has significant impacts on access to STEM majors and positive identities in the sciences. This article proposes a set of rights for QTSOCs as STEM learners…

Research has shown that youth participation in school decision-making is hindered by both racism and adultism. However, less is known about the implications of intersecting forms of injustice for youth leadership to advance social justice. We address this area using the lens of intersectionality in a qualitative study of youth leadership at a…

We designed, developed, and researched a virtual and in-person curriculum for how to explore computational thinking using dance choreography, focused on engaging upper elementary and middle school girls. However, this paper explores our observations and interactions with our young participants who identified as boys through a series of vignettes.…

This article examines women's post-secondary educational progress (e.g. undergraduate, graduate, law, medical) as related to career trajectories compared to those of men. Also addressed are challenges faced, particularly related to fertility, working in and outside of the home, the gender pay differential, and breadwinning as related to career and…