Defining and redefining gender equity in education

• Other Authors: Koch, Janice, 1947- (Editor), Irby, Beverly J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2002]
• Series: Research on women and education ; volume 1.
• Subjects: Women > Education > United States.; Sexism in education > United States.; Educational equalization > United States.; Social Science > Women's Studies.; Educational strategies and policy: inclusion.; Gender studies: women and girls.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781918117462
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-60752-551-6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations

In the past 25 years there has been an enormous increase in the amount of research exploring issues of gender and schooling. New journals have been established, and in the older journals, special issues have been devoted to addressing gender equity in education.For the editors this has raised some q...

Table of Contents:

• Defining gender equity
• What is the field of gender equity in education? : questions & answers / Susan Klein, Patricia Ortman, and Beth Friedman
• Research and evaluation on gender equity in education Pat Campbell
• Advancing gender equity
• Women leaders : creating equitable school environments / Beverly Irby and Genevieve B rown. Gender equity in the academy / Joanne Cooper
• Gender equity in science and mathematics education : barriers of the mind / Penny Hammrich
• Gender equity in technology education / Jo Sanders and Susan Tescione
• Gender, violence, and harassment in schools / Charol Shakeshaft
• Redefining gender equity
• Black women : winning or losing? / Charlotte Harris
• Latinas in the ivory tower : the road to restructuring tenure policies / Rosita Marcano
• What about single-sex schools? / Celeste Brody, Pat Schmuck, and Nancy Nagel
• Redefining gender equity / Janice Koch, Beverly Irby, and Genevieve Brown.