a brief overview of the historical understandings of human nature and of ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ characteristics is provided, which indicates some of the Western ideas shaping interpretations of sex equality, focusing on liberal theory. Then, the idea of sex equality as an aspect of ...
Such gender equality work can be seen in line with a continuous process of developing ideas, teaching methods, evaluation tools, etc., in a social context where children, students and educational staff are central operators and agents (Aikman et al., 2011; Aikman and Rao, 2012). In these p...
gender equality, and gender mainstreaming indicators, pointing out key databases to extract and analyse them, and the importance of doing so. The chapter then considers gender in the labour market, investigating the factors responsible for causing inequalities in opportunity...
121). Specifically, I approached this project as a researcher and academic who is sensitized about gender-equality issues, but also as a native Greek speaker who was born, raised, and educated in Hellas. In accordance with my epistemological position, this first-person perspective of navigating ...
students in Brazilian HEIs who intend to pursue a career in STEM. It is important that these students are taught from the early stages [22,28,46] that the paradigm in which the woman is solely responsible for housework and child care is shifting towards a new vision of the role of the...
Since the 2006 survey when the CGSS joined the East Asian Social Survey (EASS) project, four-item questions about gender equality have been added to the survey; for each question, seven ordinal responses range from totally agree to totally disagree, identical to the EASS. Thus, the survey ...
Week 6 : Gender and the Idea of Equality It is hard to say ‘gender’ without saying ‘equality.’ But what does equality even mean and what does it, or would it, look like in practice? In the last week of this course, we trace ideas about equality and gender back through history ...
Contrary to the common perception that Confucianism is incompatible with feminist movement, this article demonstrates that Chinese intellectuals in the 1890s–1920s positively reconstructed and applied Confucian ideas that provide a theoretical and political path to gender equality. Deploying the immanent ...
there are three “Bands” of local schools, with Band 1 students being the highest achievers. The Secondary School Places Allocation Mechanism which has been in use since 1978 is used to track students into different schools. Until a court ruling in 2001, grades for boys and girls were ...
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