Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) aims to foster gender equality in children and young people and has made positive contributions to addressing gender-related challenges. However, little is known about the effectiveness of CSE intervention in weakening gender bias, particularly implicit gender bias. Hence, the present study aimed to explore…

Background: One common method of teaching students about diversity, equity, and inclusion is educating them about implicit bias--stereotypes and prejudices that are relatively automatic or unconscious. Research reveals positive impacts of implicit bias education but is limited to organizations and social psychology classrooms. Objective: The…

Background: Closing the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines is essential for achieving social equity and advancing innovation and socioeconomic development, as outlined in the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. Despite notable progress, persistent stereotypes continue to restrict women's…

This study examined word class effects on Yi students' L2 Chinese word associations. 108 stimulus words, consisting of 36 nouns, 36 verbs, and 36 adjectives, were chosen from Corpus of Modern Chinese, with their frequencies and concreteness being strictly controlled. 80 students from grade 4 and 85 students from grade 10 finished the word…

Previous research has examined teacher attitudes toward student gender and teacher eye movements when looking at girls and boys in classrooms. However, to date, these two lines of research are rather separated. To better understand the co-occurrence of visual and attitudinal preferences, we investigated whether pre-service teachers' attitudes are…