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Success Ayodeji Fasanmi; Sadi Seyama – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2024
Sexual harassment in universities undermines gender equity, safety, and learning. This study assessed the level of implementation of the anti-sexual harassment policy and the influence of implementation of the policy on gender protection of students and staff of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Nigeria. The study was hinged on the feminist…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Sexual Harassment, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues
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Carina Borgström Källén; Cecilia Ferm Almqvist – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2025
Studies have shown that gender inequality in higher music education is maintained through unreflective actions. Efforts to address the issue have been made and gender-equality programmes have been instigated in several European countries. This study takes a sociological approach to music education, with the goal of revealing constructions of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Sex Fairness, Higher Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Nicolazzo, Z; Marine, Susan B.; Wagner, Rachel – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2018
Using findings from a national study of trans* students' experiences in gender-inclusive housing, we argue student affairs educators must move toward gender-inclusive housing as an intentional--rather than best--practice. We frame this innovation in the practice of gender-inclusive housing through findings related to the need to perform ongoing…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Program Implementation, Sex Fairness, College Housing
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Meyer, Elizabeth J.; Leonardi, Bethy; Keenan, Harper B. – National Education Policy Center, 2022
Transgender and nonbinary (collectively referred to here as "trans") students are ill-served by most school environments. They experience challenges trying to navigate institutions that, at best, are poorly designed to support them and that often work against them. Although some districts and states have developed laws and policies to…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Educational Policy
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Soler, Susanna; Prat, Maria; Puig, Núria; Flintoff, Anne – Quest, 2017
Gender policies in sports have expanded considerably in most countries in recent decades. Nevertheless, the implementation of these policies in sports organizations is by no means an automatic process. This article explores what happens when gender equity policies are applied in an university sports organization. Participatory action research over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Equal Education, Educational Policy
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Kaur, Amardeep; Singh, Kulwinder – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2014
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which include eight goals have been framed to address the world's major development challenges by 2015. In India, considerable progress has been reported to be made in the field of basic universal education, gender equality in education, economic growth and other human development related aspects. Even…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Teacher Education Programs
Keegan, Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the approaches used by directors in divisions of student affairs to initiate and sustain change. Determining the common and most effective approaches to change used by directors was a second purpose. Additionally, the researcher was interested in common change initiatives taking place and other factors that…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Administrators, Change Strategies, Program Implementation
Rowland, John W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The allocation of resources and participation opportunities in intercollegiate athletics has been a debate among researchers for nearly 40 years. Title IX and traditionally male-dominated budgeting practices continue to be opposing forces that shape the financial and gender makeup of university athletic departments. In fact, the need to be Title…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Decision Making, Compliance (Legal)
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Unterhalter, Elaine; North, Amy – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
This paper explores understandings of gender equality and education and the nature of global goal and target setting, drawing on empirical data collected in central and local government departments in Kenya and South Africa reflecting on their implementation of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1, concerned with poverty, MDG 2, concerned with…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Poverty Programs