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Direct linkMattsson, Tina – Gender and Education, 2015
Gender inequality in academia might be understood as an effect of the belief of a contradiction between woman and science, which make it difficult for women to appropriate the right to author and authorise acts of knowing and thinking in science. In relation to this concern, the aim of this article is to explore how a group of successful women…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Femininity, Gender Bias
Mehta, Clare Marie; Keener, Emily; Shrier, Lydia – Gender and Education, 2013
We build on Diana Leonard's work on gender and graduate education by qualitatively investigating the perceived advantages and disadvantages of being a female graduate student in the USA and the UK. We interviewed six female students (ages 22-30) pursuing master's degrees in psychology or social sciences in the USA and the UK. Students from both…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Masters Degrees
Danielsson, Anna T. – Gender and Education, 2012
This article explores what it can mean to be a woman physics student. A case study approach is used to explore how five women who are studying physics at a Swedish university simultaneously negotiate their doing of physics and their doing of gender. By conceptualising both gender and learning as aspects of identity formation, the analysis of the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Females, Physics, Case Studies
Burman, Erica – Gender and Education, 2011
The task of re-evaluating the legacy of Susan Isaacs is a complex one. Of course there is the need to acknowledge the role and work of a key woman thinker and (in some senses) activist, clearly unconventional and forward-thinking, whose specific contribution seems to have been largely overlooked by malestream history. As a contemporary to some of…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Psychiatry, Child Development, Emotional Development
Peer reviewedGilbert, Jane – Gender and Education, 2001
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…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Gender Issues, Science Education
Twomey, Sarah – Gender and Education, 2005
To resuscitate means to revive or make go on. This paper is an exploration of my first six months at a Canadian university as a doctoral student. Through a chronological narrative, I explore my experiences through the governing relations of the academy as a way to provoke dialogue about the role of feminist researcher in the institution. By…
Descriptors: Science Fiction, Feminism, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis
