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Direct linkKaty-Louise Payne; Emma Gooding – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Research suggests that whilst not more likely to offend, autistic people are overrepresented within the Criminal Justice System. To date, prevalence estimates are available only for male autistic offenders. Thus, this research aimed to provide the prison-reported rate of autistic female prisoners currently residing in the female prison estate in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Females
Junyi Cao; Katy Ieong Cheng Ho Weatherly; Wenhui Tang – Music Education Research, 2025
This study examines gender representation in middle school music textbooks in mainland China, aiming to explore portrayals of male and female musicians and potential biases within music education. Inspired by China's recent commitment to gender equality as outlined in its legal and educational policies, this research scrutinises the gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Equal Education, Music Education
Mónica Moso-Diez; Antonio Mondaca-Soto; Juan P. Gamboa; Itziar García-Blázquez – International Journal of Training and Development, 2025
The "leaky pipeline" metaphor describes the greater likelihood of women and girls leaving Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields at every point, relative to men and boys. Gender disparities occur both in recruitment--that is, who chooses to enter a STEM pathway--as well as retention--that is, who chooses to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, STEM Education, STEM Careers
Robert Miintzuoh Kao – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2025
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shifted the education landscape between recent college and university graduates and pathways to graduate degrees. In my perspective article, I wish to share the challenges, reflections, and a call-to-action framework in ways we can support and advocate for postbaccalaureate persons excluded because…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Graduates, Academic Degrees, Postsecondary Education
Kaitlyn Coburn; Kris Troy; Carly A. Busch; Naomi Barber-Choi; Kevin M. Bonney; Brock Couch; Marcos E. García-Ojeda; Rachel Hutto; Lauryn Famble; Matt Flagg; Tracy Gladding; Anna Kowalkowski; Carlos Landaverde; Stanley M. Lo; Kimberly MacLeod; Blessed Mbogo; Taya Misheva; Andy Trinh; Rebecca Vides; Erik Wieboldt; Cara Gormally; Jeffrey Maloy – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
Trans* and genderqueer student retention and liberation is integral for equity in undergraduate education. While STEM leadership calls for data-supported systemic change, the erasure and othering of trans* and genderqueer identities in STEM research perpetuates cisnormative narratives. We sought to characterize how sex and gender data are…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Transgender People, Disproportionate Representation, Educational Research
Jody Bauer; Robert Hougham; Sarah Burgess – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2025
This research aims to identify the quantity, quality, and condition of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in environmental education in Wisconsin. Researchers surveyed environmental education organizations across the state to collect and disseminate data related to the status and needs of these initiatives, and to identify areas of…
Descriptors: Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Environmental Education, Access to Education, Outdoor Education
David Ben Shannon – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
In this paper, I draw from an in-school music research-creation project to consider the complex, racist-ableist politics of failure in the early childhood classroom. I theorise failure as it unfolds through anxiety, which I conceptualise as an affect of failure, to discuss both the perverse possibilities and perilous precarities of (neuro)queer…
Descriptors: Music, Musical Composition, Special Education, Affective Behavior
Kimberly D. Gates – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Underrepresentation of females in college science, technology, engineering, and math impacts college graduation rates, pay disparity of females, and the local and global workforce. Research offers one concept, sense of belonging, as vital to motivation of and persistence in major. To address a sense of belonging for this population, some…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Disproportionate Representation, Communities of Practice
Rosaura Aguerrebere; Juanita Santos – Theory Into Practice, 2024
The purpose of this article is to examine the critical components to successfully serving on a school board or leadership roles, as a member of the Latino(a) community. According to a 2010 national school board survey, only 3% of the 900 board respondents identified as Latino(a) compared with almost 80% who identified as White. The first author…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Boards of Education, Board Candidates, School Administration
Adrian Salguero – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Introductory computer programming (i.e. CS1) is the entry point into the computer science major at higher education institutions worldwide. It introduces foundational concepts to students that are then built upon in future courses. Computer science as a whole has struggled to attract and retain students in the major, particularly women and…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Programming, Introductory Courses, Disproportionate Representation
Rodney Gomez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This interpretive phenomenological study addresses the underrepresentation of Latinas in higher education leadership roles by focusing on the lived experiences of Latina poets who have served as higher education leaders. Data, collected through semi-structured participant interviews and participant writing samples, was analyzed through a standard…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Leadership, Poetry, Disproportionate Representation
Download full textCristina Valdés-Argüelles; Aquilina Fueyo Gutiérrez; María Verdeja – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2024
As video games have evolved, they have emerged as useful tools in areas such as education, tackling global issues through their storylines and mechanics. However, never in the history of video games, not even today, has there been parity in the proportion of women directly employed in the development of video games. This paper is part of a broader…
Descriptors: Video Games, Sex, Females, Industry
Kelba M. Sosa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative narrative study delved into the experiences and journeys of Dominican women ascending to administrative leadership positions within U.S. higher education institutions. The main purpose was to explore the challenges and successes encountered by these women, addressing the identified issue of their underrepresentation in such roles.…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Higher Education, Administrator Attitudes, Disproportionate Representation
Katherine Pickard; Karen Guerra; Nicole Hendrix; Meena Khowaja; Chris Nicholson – Journal of Early Intervention, 2024
Naturalistic, Developmental, and Behavioral Interventions (NDBIs) are an empirically supported intervention approach for young autistic children and their families. Spanish-speaking (SS) Latinx families have been underrepresented in autism intervention research, limiting our understanding of whether NDBIs are aligned with Latinx family values and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Spanish Speaking, Latin Americans
Martine Duggan – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2024
This paper reports on a small-scale, qualitative study, located in England and Wales, with the goal of advancing fairer teacher representation. Deploying a positive lens, the research shines a light on the lived experiences of 12 individuals from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, all of whom successfully entered the teaching profession…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Foreign Countries, Disproportionate Representation, Teaching Experience
