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Crimmins, Gail; Casey, Sarah – Education & Training, 2023
Purpose: This paper argues that universities can facilitate women graduates' employability by supporting gender equity within their institutions. It presents a rationale and strategy for addressing the gendered nature of career confidence which negatively impacts women graduates' entry into the workplace -- a phenomenon that influences women…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Practices, Females, College Graduates
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McKnight, Lucinda; Variyan, George; Charles, Claire – Gender and Education, 2023
This article shares findings from a small, largely qualitative empirical study of elite Australian boys' school alumni's perspectives on feminine gender and gender justice. The article focuses on the purported absence in these men's memories of learning about gender at school and the paradox that the research interviews are full of gender-related…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Alumni, Attitudes, Gender Issues
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Sandlos, Lisa – Journal of Dance Education, 2023
In many dance competitions in North America, performances of sexualized choreography have become normalized. One result is that bodies of girl dancers are increasingly constructed as sexual objects. Sexual objectification is highly problematic for the development of girls' self-identities, body image, psychological health, and overall wellbeing.…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Females, Sexuality, Human Body
Jonathan Andicoechea Fischmann – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation investigates how the numerical representation of women in small collaborative groups influences their learning in a college biology class for non-majors focused on sex, gender, and society. Prior to the start of the semester, the researchers divided students into all-male, all-female, or mixed-gender groups of varying sex ratios.…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Disproportionate Representation, College Science
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Saskia Eschenbacher; Nils Weber – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2023
The theory of transformative learning and its notion of freedom, that we are not trapped by one way of looking at the world or being in the world, fosters a fundamental re-ordering and radical questioning of how one thinks or acts. As a theory of adult learning, it emerged from the women's movement in the US, echoing what it means to become a…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Transformative Learning, Reflection, Criticism
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Markus Harwood-Jones; Lee Airton; Kel Martin – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2023
Gendered washrooms and changerooms are sites of tension for many transgender and/or gender non-conforming users. However, these are not the only groups impacted by the exclusive provision of gendered spaces. As gender-neutral facilities become increasingly standardized across multiple sectors, we consider how the rising trend of "universal…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Sanitary Facilities, LGBTQ People, Diversity
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Guzel, Pinar – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
This study, which focuses on women referees in the karate branch, is therefore of unique value. The study group of the research consists of 23 women and 32 men participants. In the research, a questionnaire form consisting of quantitative and qualitative questions prepared by the researcher was used as the data collection tool. 58.2% of the…
Descriptors: Athletics, Attitudes, Experience, Gender Issues
Leanne Cameron; Ella Page – Education Development Trust, 2024
The Cambodian government has been successful in raising girls' enrolment and academic achievement in recent years, with girls' enrolment reaching 100% in 2021 and girls outperforming boys in reading, writing and mathematics at Grade 5 level. While this is hugely encouraging for girls' education in the country, these statistics alone do not help us…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Females, Gender Differences
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Sundari Anitha; Ana Jordan; Nicola Chanamuto – Gender and Education, 2024
The problematisation of a social phenomenon is a political process that both constructs the problem and, in doing so, suggests possible remedies and occludes others. Based on the first-ever comprehensive analysis of 129 UK university policies to address Gender-based violence (GBV), we examine how the 'problem' of GBV is conceptualised in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, School Policy, Gender Issues
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Ángel González; Marissa C. Vasquez; Melissa Abeyta – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
Latino men hold a contradictory position within patriarchal privilege that offers them advantages yet undermines their racial and cultural capital. Underpinned by Latino feminist masculinities, this phenomenological study explored how participants redefined characteristics of masculinity. This study provides critical insight into how 26…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Males, Masculinity, Gender Issues
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Iker Erdocia; Josep Soler – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Public intellectual life is an area of inquiry that has not received a great deal of attention within the field of sociolinguistics. This article investigates the performative dimension of public intellectual engagement in the area of language and gender and, more specifically, how epistemic authority about gender-neutral language is constructed…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Political Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
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Grace McCleskey; Jasmine T. Austin – Communication Teacher, 2024
Courses: This unit activity applies critical theories from the fields of communication, sociology, and gender studies and therefore can be used in any course that discusses gender studies, qualitative research, content analysis, media effects, film analysis, or LGBTQ studies. This can be modified as an activity for graduate or undergraduate…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Media Literacy, Higher Education, Films
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Guillermo Ortega; Stephanie Aguilar-Smith; Gilberto Lizalde; Chris Porras – Innovative Higher Education, 2024
Guided by Bornstein's (2003) model focused on legitimacy within leadership and Latinx critical theory (LatCrit), we explored barriers Latinx leaders encounter on their path to executive roles at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and how their race and gender shaped their professional trajectories. Our findings show that some Latinx leaders may…
Descriptors: College Administration, Minority Serving Institutions, Hispanic Americans, Administrators
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Luz Santa María – Literacy, 2024
This article discusses young women's reading practices and the social uses of literature for enabling gender equality that are present in those practices. Through a digital ethnography study where six young women collaborated as participants, I asked the data: How is literature, precisely its capacity to be used, conceived by young women readers…
Descriptors: Females, Feminism, Gender Issues, Womens Education
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Astrid M. C. Jehle; Marleen G. Groeneveld; Tessa M. van de Rozenberg; Judi Mesman – European Journal of Education, 2024
This cross-national European comparison examined gender representation and stereotypes in mathematics and language textbooks from Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Romania. The results showed that female characters were numerically underrepresented. Female characters were also less often a main character or individually portrayed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
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