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Andrea Valdivia; María Jesús Ibañez; Fernanda Rojas – Gender and Education, 2023
The last decade was marked by cycles of social movements around the world, where resisting and fighting against neoliberal capitalism and a patriarchal system have been at the centre of political action. In Chile, the "Feminist May" student movement in 2018 was a turning point and showed the strong and entangled relationship between…
Descriptors: Feminism, Secondary School Students, Social Media, Administrator Attitudes
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Janna McClain; Katie Schrodt – Gender and Education, 2024
The authors utilize a duoethnographic approach to interrogate their positionality within a co-caring community of elementary school educators who participated in a week-long writers' workshop as part of their professional development. The teachers worked in a rural elementary school in the American South that served students who represent…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Authors, Workshops, Gender Issues
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Gail Crimmins; Elvessa Marshall; Gemma J. M. Read – Gender and Education, 2024
The paper examines a 'circulatory' system of gender inequity in Australian universities where gender bias prevents women from accessing senior decision-making roles and stultifies their capacity to act as gender change agents. It has been mooted that equity quotas for senior roles can derail this circuit of male privilege in academia. Yet a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Universities, Gender Bias
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Stephanie Wescott; Steven Roberts; Xuenan Zhao – Gender and Education, 2024
There is growing visibility of online 'manfluencers' who espouse extreme masculine ideals and share them with their audiences of boys and young men. Taking this phenomenon as a launch-pad, we join the tradition of research that exposes sexism in schools and theorizes girls and women's experiences of working within and against masculine hegemony.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Hyena Kim – Gender and Education, 2024
Living in a wasted world is an educational problem that requires a radical shift in more-than-human relationships. Education has served as a means for re/producing socio-ecological waste by legitimizing discrimination among earthly beings. Ecofeminism reveals a common mechanism underlying different hierarchies as well as embodied connections…
Descriptors: Feminism, Ecology, Environmental Education, Humanism
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McCullough, Susan – Gender and Education, 2017
This paper describes the practices employed by middle school girls in New York City to negotiate their postfeminist school environment and considers the contested notion of girls' agency. Based on an exploratory ethnographic study, the data reveal that girls--to varying degrees of success--enacted a range of practices to gain power over the…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Power Structure
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Nystrom, Eva – Gender and Education, 2009
The aim of the project which forms the basis of this article was to make the science classroom more inclusive by challenging discriminatory practices. Science teachers from two secondary schools in Sweden agreed to be involved in an action research project over one year. Each teacher was to carry out a study concerning their own teaching and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Gender Discrimination