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Katy-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
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Ivo Jirásek; Nikola Maceková – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2023
Children's literature can become one of the means of shaping personal identity, including gender socialization. The main characters portrayed in a book can become a kind of gender role model. The study examines gender themes in Czech books for children of younger school age that have been awarded the Golden Ribbon and Magnesia Litera prizes. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Young Children, Disproportionate Representation
Rachael Johnstone, Editor; Bessma Momani, Editor – University of British Columbia Press, 2024
Even as Canadian universities suggest their gender issues have largely been resolved, many women in academia tell a different story. Systemic discrimination, the underrepresentation of women in more senior and lucrative roles, and the belief that gender-related concerns will simply self-correct with greater representation at the lower rungs of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Gender Issues, Sex Fairness
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Astrid M. C. Jehle; Marleen G. Groeneveld; Tessa M. van de Rozenberg; Judi Mesman – European Journal of Education, 2024
This cross-national European comparison examined gender representation and stereotypes in mathematics and language textbooks from Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Romania. The results showed that female characters were numerically underrepresented. Female characters were also less often a main character or individually portrayed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
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Solveig Osborg Ose; Henrik Karlstrøm; Kari Sand; Eva Lassemo – Research Evaluation, 2025
Gender mainstreaming was chosen as a major strategy for the promotion of gender equality in the Beijing Platform for Action in 2002. This approach has been adopted in research policy in many countries, including Norway. We ask: Has the share of published research that includes sex and/or gender perspectives increased during the last decade in…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Journal Articles
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Ngoc Lan Thi Dang – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2025
This study addresses the scarcity of international and comparative literature on lived experiences of women leaders in academia in the East and the West. It is unique in that it explored and compared challenges faced by academic women leaders in Malaysia, the United States, and Viet Nam. Phenomenography was the primary research method employed in…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Women Administrators, Females, Gender Issues
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Helen English; Jon Drummond; Susan Kerrigan – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Recent studies and media articles draw attention to gender imbalances in the music industry, both locally in Australia and globally. In Australia, there have been calls to overhaul tertiary music programmes to support and encourage female students into careers such as sound production, screen composition and contemporary music performance, where…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Music Education, Females, College Students
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Michelle Dickson – Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy and Practice, 2023
Recent data shows a continuing trend of gender disparity in leadership positions in tertiary education in New Zealand with men dominating higher levels of employment and advancing at faster rates than women. This study explored the experiences of six academic women who have advanced to leadership roles in New Zealand to examine the role that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Women Administrators, Females, College Administration
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Alice Amegah – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
As technical and vocational education and training (TVET) continue to occupy a prominent position in Africa's development, addressing the growing concerns about young women's under-participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related TVET has become urgent. This paper draws on the critical capability approach of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Education, Vocational Education, STEM Education
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Luis Herskovic; Josefina Silva – Educational Studies, 2024
Although it is well documented that women are under-represented in STEM majors, the causes of this under-representation in different contexts are less clear. This article studies the relevance of absolute and relative performance in high school courses on STEM field enrollment when entering college in Chile. We use administrative countrywide data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High School Students, Decision Making, STEM Education
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Gulfiya Kuchumova; Aliya Kuzhabekova; Ainur Almukhambetova; Aigul Nurpeissova – Journal of Career Development, 2024
Women's persistence in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has been widely researched in educational settings, whereas less is known about their STEM persistence after graduation. Drawing on social cognitive career theory and in-depth semi-structured interviews with twenty women graduates majoring in STEM fields, this article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, STEM Careers, College Graduates
Kimberley E. Jung – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Despite the population in British Columbia, Canada becoming increasingly diverse, there is still a lack of representation of women of colour within K-12 educational leadership roles. Research questions were: What intersectional barriers are contributing to the lack of women of colour in K-12 educational leadership roles such as school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disproportionate Representation, Gender Issues, Racial Factors
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Heriberta Heriberta; Nurdiana Gaus; Muhammad Azwar Paramma; Nursita Utami – Qualitative Research Journal, 2024
Purpose: Personal branding is a strategic tool of marketing and communication to define success in organisations. While it constitutes a conscious attempt to commodify self and audit self, it must be intentionally managed to obtain its optimum results. This study aims to illustrate how personal branding may also pose unintentional and unconscious…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Higher Education, Females, Marketing
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Parinda Rahman – Discover Education, 2024
Globally, a significant gender gap is reported in the enrolment of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Bangladesh reports one of the lowest female stakeholder percentages in STEM but has increased demand for skilled STEM professionals. Therefore, this qualitative study explores the experiences of undergraduate women…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Females, Undergraduate Students
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Uunk, Wilfred; Pratter, Magdalena – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2020
We study gender differences in the selection of traditional universities versus universities of applied sciences in Germany. Do women, due to life and job goals, less often enrol than men in traditional universities and more often enrol at the more practice- and profession-oriented universities of applied sciences? Or are women overrepresented at…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Higher Education, Disproportionate Representation, Technology
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