Since COVID-19 closed schools in March 2020, international development experts, politicians, and celebrities across the globe have raised alarm about the pandemic's impacts on girls' education, particularly in Africa. These warnings, which link school closures with untimely pregnancy and marriage, reflect belief in the multiplicative power of…

This article reports the results of a network analysis on the financing and implementation networks of private foundations characterized as regional and/or domestic that supported targeted girls' and women's education initiatives in two subregions of Asia: South Asia and East Asia and the Pacific. It analyzes an originally constructed dataset of…

Investment in girls' education is offered as a salve to the Global South that will alleviate poverty, prevent terrorism, and curb gender-based violence. Rather than treat this thesis and its evidentiary basis as axiomatic, we examine some of the conditions for the intelligibility of this crisis, prevalent in much international development and…

Recent decades have seen rapid growth of national participation in international tests as well as expanded national assessment testing. This article addresses the relationship between these forms of testing and educational developments: educational enrollments, women's participation in schooling, repetition rates, student centrism in the…

The contemporary paradigm of international development invests in individuals and communities as the main agents of development. In this paradigm, education is presented as the central avenue for individuals and communities to generate resources and networks to empower themselves. Some development and feminist scholars have critiqued this intense…

In recent decades, a dramatic shift has occurred in higher education throughout much of the industrialized world. For the first time in history, women are completing more education than men. Through the 1970s, women lagged behind men in the number of tertiary degrees completed in most nations. Since the 1980s, women have begun to reach parity with…

A former graduate student of Gail Kelly reminisces about her insistence that her students ask the right questions after first examining their own assumptions. Kelly's work in developing countries examined the ways in which the school experiences of boys and girls differed and how the "hidden curriculum" of educational systems perpetuated…

Analyzes data from evaluations of seven Nepalese literacy programs (five for adults and two for out-of-school children) using the same instructional materials and design. Examines dropout rates, female participation, language of instruction, skill acquisition, skill retention, changes in attitudes and knowledge, effects on elementary enrollment,…

Discussed is the 1952 Egyptian revolutionary regime's expansion of women's education, with particular reference to the expansion of higher education opportunities for women; its effect on employment opportunities for women; and its impact on women's participation in the professional sector of the economy. (KC)

Among 1,012 Nigerian ninth graders in 40 schools, girls in single-sex schools had higher mathematics achievement and less stereotypic views of mathematics than girls in coed schools, whereas boys in single-sex schools were negatively affected compared to those in coed schools. Contains 46 references. (SV)

Examines the life of Cara Mallett, who improved the education of women teachers during her career as teacher and administrator at Whitelands College (London) and Hurlstone Training College for Women (New South Wales, Australia). Compares the education and experiences of women teachers in late nineteenth-century England and Australia. (SV)

This article uses the lens of education to elucidate multidimensional transformations affecting gender equity in the process of democratization in CEE, SEE, and FSU countries. First, the article suggests that postsocialist transformations in these areas have not automatically resulted in greater gender equity across the region but rather have led…

Gail Kelly's research on women's education in developing nations enriched scholarship on improving women's quality of life through education. Main strands of inquiry examined how school processes and curricula affect women's educational outcomes (versus men's), the false bifurcation of private and public spheres of women's lives, and how women's…

Examines various films that use visual imagery to provoke heightened awareness of women-centered spirituality. Considers the Goddess metaphor as evoking women's history, empowering women, demonstrating the links between women and the Earth, and illuminating sources of women's creativity. Discusses implications for women's education and…

In Upper Volta, a major nonformal educational program attempted to overcome environment and time obstacles to educational participation by rural girls and women. This article discusses project findings on women's time use, the impact of various labor-saving technologies introduced, and women's participation in and attitudes toward project…