Longitudinally examined how young Australian women who attended school during an era of equal opportunity made career decisions and perceived their unfolding lives. Respondents considered themselves active agents in constructing their own futures, and gender did not control their destinies. While they succeeded on male terms, many competing…

Examined relationships and conflicts between secondary school boys and girls, noting the fine line between playing "just for fun" and harassment. Data from classroom observations, interviews with younger adolescents, and reminiscences of the same adolescents a few years later revealed diverse interpretations of gendered interactions. Incidents…

Critiques pregnancy policies in sub-Saharan Africa's education systems, examining expulsion, reentry, and continuation policies for students who become pregnant. Argues that both expulsion policies and reentry policies violate students' rights to education, suggesting that continuation policies provide the most opportunity for gender equity. Notes…

Observed and conducted discussions with female members of an elementary-level, mixed-gender, Australian chess club to investigate why girls left and boys came to dominate the club. Results indicated that both home values and schooling transmitted and reinforced inequalities between the sexes, though in more subtle and less overt forms than in the…

Takes an anti-essentialist approach to the gendered construction of science education, examining student subject positions generated within the dominant discourses and practices of curriculum science. Examines interview data from British secondary and postsecondary students, noting contradictions arising from gender and curriculum essentialism and…

Despite recent increases in girls' participation and achievement in school science, the problem of gender and science education remains. Much of the published research on the subject reproduces the problem. Suggests that if the problem of gender and science education is produced via certain assumptions underlying the terms "gender" and "science,"…

Examined the Scottish Mountain Leader Training Board's training and assessment scheme for mountain leaders, how people progressed through the scheme, why they entered and left, and how men and women viewed particular aspects of the scheme. Surveys indicated that there were gender differences in occupational status, in the way men and women used…

Discusses issues of accountability for gender reform in education given changing politics accompanying globalization processes. Argues that globalization processes work in contradictory ways. While market liberal ideologies and practices underpinning globalization threaten to undermine gains in educational equity, there may be possibilities for a…

This study of AIDS education in Uganda used an ethnography of school culture to explore the contradictions in curriculum intervention. Male domination and power imbalances in the school encouraged attitudes and practices with regard to sexual relationships that negated the official messages of the AIDS curriculum. Examines four forms of school…

Examines the written language of student resistance to feminism in teacher education. Inductive textual analysis of data from standardized student narrative evaluations of teaching and course content uncovered students' situated conceptions of women's subordination, ranging from complete denial of its existence to confused despair over an absence…

Argues that despite academic achievements, the odds are still often stacked against girls within and outside of school. Data from surveys and interviews at English high schools show that though girls have outperformed boys in secondary level examinations, they still feel alienated from traditionally male subjects, career aspirations are still…

Examined essays written by youths age 14-20 in Botswana, a country that significantly discriminates against women, about how life would change if they woke up one day as the opposite sex. Overall, 40 percent of respondents had mixed emotions about waking up as the other sex. Both sexes were painfully aware of the overwhelming disadvantage of being…

Discusses the extent to which poststructuralist theory can be applied to feminist research. Explores why some feminist researchers are attracted to poststructuralist theory and others are not. Distinguishes between application of poststructuralist theory to descriptive theory and to emancipatory research. Argues that pure poststructuralism is not…

Describes an action research study among preservice teachers in an educational psychology course in which resistance to learning associated with a particular working class masculinity appeared to be overcome. Resistance apparently developed because some activities and content of the preservice program threatened an occupationally constructed…

Interview-based study investigated epistemologies of practicing British mathematicians, noting the impact on how they conducted their professional lives and examining sex differences in their careers. Relates findings to mathematics learning in schools, noting lessons to be learned regarding equally achievable mathematics success by any student.…