Gender and Education: Explore Highlighted Content

We invite you to explore this selection of research focused on gender and education, curated by our editors. Here you can find the best and latest book chapters and journal articles from across our portfolios, dedicated to highlighting and eliminating gender disparities in education and ensuring equal access to all levels of education.

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Highlighted chapters and articles

Chapters

9783030865702

The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education


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‘I Shouldn’t Be Here’: Academics’ Experiences of Embodied (Un)belonging, Gendered Competitiveness, and Inequalities in Precarious English Higher Education

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

9789811904608

Gender Equity: Challenges and Opportunities


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The Relevance of Intervention Programmes in School Setting to Sensitize Children Towards Gender Equity

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

9783031310461

Gender, Sexuality and the UN's SDGs


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Ensuring Equitable, Equal, Empowering Education

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

9783031143601

Gender-Competent Legal Education


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The Evolving Recognition of Gender in International and European Law

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9783030826543

Feminist Methodologies


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Feminist Storytellers Imagining New Stories to Tell

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

9783031134593

Legal Issues of International Law from a Gender Perspective


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Female Reproduction and Sexuality: The Impact of Gender Stereotypes on Women’s Rights in International Jurisprudence

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

9783030636326

Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents


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Searching for the Child in Colonial Uganda’s Educational Archives

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

9789811623271

International Handbook on Education Development in Asia-Pacific


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Education in an Uncertain Future: The Promise of Equity

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9783030696917

Equity Policies in Global Higher Education


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Equity in Higher Education: Evidences, Policies and Practices. Setting the Scene

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

9789811995538

Widening Participation in Higher Education


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Academic Staff Identity in Widening Participation Programs

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9783031066962

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume 38


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Still Striving, and for What? Centering Equity in the Study of Prestige Seeking in Higher Education

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

9789811950087

Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education


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Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education in the Twenty-First Century

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

9789811904608

Gender Equity: Challenges and Opportunities


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Achieving Gender Equity: A Case for Science Education in India

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Articles

Gender does not make the difference: interest in STEM by gender is fully mediated by technical socialization and degree program

from International Journal of Technology and Design Education

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Only 26 Black Women Have Ever Become Astrophysicists in the U.S. Here’s One’s Story

from Scientific American

Scientific American 25 px © Springer Nature 2020

Factors Influencing the Attrition and Retention of Special Education Teachers Based on Gender and Racial Differences

from The Urban Review

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

How much of the female disadvantage in late-life cognition in India can be explained by education and gender inequality

from Scientific Reports

Nature Research 25 px © Springer Nature 2020

A pedagogy of freedom as a viable basis for implementing gender equality in Ukraine’s educational institutions

from International Review of Education

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Rapid evidence assessment on women’s empowerment interventions within the food system: a meta-analysis

from Agriculture & Food Security

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Religiosity and gender role perceptions: insights from Malaysia

from Contemporary Islam

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Afghan women and dental education

from British Dental Journal

Springer Nature 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Male Default: When Images of Neutral Characters from Picture Books Are Not So Neutral

from Gender Issues

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Two billion registered students affected by stereotyped educational environments: an analysis of gender-based color bias

from Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

The Representation of Gender Stereotypes in Spanish Mathematics Textbooks for Elementary Education

from Sexuality & Culture

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Teachers’ race and gender biases and the moderating effects of their beliefs and dispositions

from International Journal of STEM Education

Springer Open 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Gender Differences in Education: Are Girls Neglected in Pakistani Society?

from Journal of the Knowledge Economy

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world

from Nature Human Behaviour

Nature Research 25 px © Springer Nature 2020

Transgender health content in medical education: a theory-guided systematic review of current training practices and implementation barriers & facilitators

from Advances in Health Sciences Education

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

New priorities for academic integrity: equity, diversity, inclusion, decolonization and Indigenization

from International Journal for Educational Integrity

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Gender equality perceptions of preservice teachers: are they ready to teach it?

from Social Psychology of Education

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Differences in psychosocial factors of mental health in an ethnically diverse Black adult population

from Journal of Public Health Policy

Palgrave Macmillan 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

A review of ICT-enabled learning for schoolgirls in Asia and its impacts on education equity

from Educational technology research and development

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Rethinking place-based gender relations in the new country: the case of tertiary level Syrian students in Istanbul

from Comparative Migration Studies

Springer Open 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Gender (im)balance in the pool of graduate talent: the portuguese case

from Tertiary Education and Management

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

Gender differences in the intention to study math increase with math performance

from Nature Communications

Nature Research 25 px © Springer Nature 2020

Early Childhood Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions of Computer Science, Gender Stereotypes, and Coding in Early Childhood Education

from TechTrends

Springer 20 px © Springer Nature 2020

How do numerical and literacy stimulations in mother–child interactions relate to early gender differences in mathematical competencies? Empirical results from the NEPS Newborn Cohort study

from Large-scale Assessments in Education

Springer Open 20 px © Springer Nature 2020