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Download full textMatthew Damilola Omojemite; Elphina Nomabandla Cishe; Mpongwana Zibongiwe – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2024
This review is a theoretical paper which examined gender stereotyping and social norms. The review was supported by feminist theory, critical theory and social psychology theory. The review utilizes a comprehensive strategy to investigate the theoretical lenses and consequences of gender stereotyping and social norms. The approach comprised of a…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Social Behavior, Behavior Standards, Feminism
Direct linkMuberekwa, Evelyn; Nkomo, Thobeka – SAGE Open, 2016
Issues of women's empowerment and gender inequality have been of paramount importance, particularly in the two decades since the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995. At that conference, the campaign for women's empowerment was initiated to implement laws promoting gender equality. This research explored the perceptions of nine academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Women Faculty, College Faculty
Dentith, Audrey M.; Sailors, Misty; Sethusha, Mantsose – Journal of Literacy Research, 2016
Education reform, including methods to create greater gender equality, is an ongoing process in post-Apartheid South Africa. Using an African feminism theoretical framework and a critical content analysis approach, we examined the representation of female characters in a subset of supplementary reading titles created under an international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Equal Education, Gender Issues
Shefer, Tamara; Bhana, Deevia; Morrell, Robert – Perspectives in Education, 2013
South African national education policy is committed to promoting gender equality at school and to facilitating the successful completion of all young people's schooling, including those who may become pregnant and parent while at school. However, the experience of being pregnant and parenting while being a learner is shaped by broader social and…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Sexuality, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Bhana, Deevia; Mcambi, Sithembile Judith – Perspectives in Education, 2013
Schools are obliged to support young women who become mothers. Drawing from an interview study of young women in a Durban school, this article shows how their experience is situated within discourses of shame and stigma. Such shame works to reduce their agency and increase their vulnerability to drop out of school. Both teachers and peers are…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Adolescents, Child Rearing, Social Support Groups
Lynch, Ingrid; Nowosenetz, Tessa – Gender and Education, 2009
Despite an appreciation of the need to increase gender sensitivity and awareness among tertiary students in the field of science, engineering and technology (SET), there is a paucity of research that explores how students in this field construct gender. A greater understanding of such constructions can assist in transforming gender relations and…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Discourse Analysis, Engineering, Sex Fairness
