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Peer reviewedBurgess, Robert G. – Gender and Education, 1989
A major but neglected area of gender inequality in education involves social relationships among teachers and teacher-teacher interactions. This article discusses ways in which gender relations in school influence the lives of women teachers, focusing on staff common-room milieu, staffroom humor, "women's work," and perceptions of…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Educational Sociology, Ethnography, Females


