Women Schooling

Author : Elizabeth M. King,M. Anne Hill
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0801858283

Get Book

Women's Education in Developing Countries by Elizabeth M. King,M. Anne Hill Pdf

Why do women in most developing countries lag behind men in literacy? Why do women get less schooling than men? This anthology examines the educational decisions that deprive women of an equal education. It assembles the most up-to-date data, organized by region. Each paper links the data with other measures of economic and social development. This approach helps explain the effects different levels of education have on womens' fertility, mortality rates, life expectancy, and income. Also described are the effects of women's education on family welfare. The authors look at family size and women's labor status and earnings. They examine child and maternal health, as well as investments in children's education. Their investigation demonstrates that women with a better education enjoy greater economic growth and provide a more nurturing family life. It suggests that when a country denies women an equal education, the nation's welfare suffers. Current strategies used to improve schooling for girls and women are examined in detail. The authors suggest an ambitious agenda for educating women. It seeks to close the gender gap by the next century. Published for The World Bank by The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Author : Thomas A. DiPrete,Claudia Buchmann
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610448000

Get Book

The Rise of Women by Thomas A. DiPrete,Claudia Buchmann Pdf

While powerful gender inequalities remain in American society, women have made substantial gains and now largely surpass men in one crucial arena: education. Women now outperform men academically at all levels of school, and are more likely to obtain college degrees and enroll in graduate school. What accounts for this enormous reversal in the gender education gap? In The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What It Means for American Schools, Thomas DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann provide a detailed and accessible account of women’s educational advantage and suggest new strategies to improve schooling outcomes for both boys and girls. The Rise of Women opens with a masterful overview of the broader societal changes that accompanied the change in gender trends in higher education. The rise of egalitarian gender norms and a growing demand for college-educated workers allowed more women to enroll in colleges and universities nationwide. As this shift occurred, women quickly reversed the historical male advantage in education. By 2010, young women in their mid-twenties surpassed their male counterparts in earning college degrees by more than eight percentage points. The authors, however, reveal an important exception: While women have achieved parity in fields such as medicine and the law, they lag far behind men in engineering and physical science degrees. To explain these trends, The Rise of Women charts the performance of boys and girls over the course of their schooling. At each stage in the education process, they consider the gender-specific impact of factors such as families, schools, peers, race and class. Important differences emerge as early as kindergarten, where girls show higher levels of essential learning skills such as persistence and self-control. Girls also derive more intrinsic gratification from performing well on a day-to-day basis, a crucial advantage in the learning process. By contrast, boys must often navigate a conflict between their emerging masculine identity and a strong attachment to school. Families and peers play a crucial role at this juncture. The authors show the gender gap in educational attainment between children in the same families tends to be lower when the father is present and more highly educated. A strong academic climate, both among friends and at home, also tends to erode stereotypes that disconnect academic prowess and a healthy, masculine identity. Similarly, high schools with strong science curricula reduce the power of gender stereotypes concerning science and technology and encourage girls to major in scientific fields. As the value of a highly skilled workforce continues to grow, The Rise of Women argues that understanding the source and extent of the gender gap in higher education is essential to improving our schools and the economy. With its rigorous data and clear recommendations, this volume illuminates new ground for future education policies and research.

Author : Funké Aladejebi
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228007043

Get Book

Schooling the System by Funké Aladejebi Pdf

In post–World War II Canada, black women’s positions within the teaching profession served as sites of struggle and conflict as the nation worked to address the needs of its diversifying population. From their entry into teachers’ college through their careers in the classroom and administration, black women educators encountered systemic racism and gender barriers at every step. So they worked to change the system. Using oral narratives to tell the story of black access and education in Ontario between the 1940s and the 1980s, Schooling the System provides textured insight into how issues of race, gender, class, geographic origin, and training shaped women’s distinct experiences within the profession. By valuing women’s voices and lived experiences, Funké Aladejebi illustrates that black women, as a diverse group, made vital contributions to the creation and development of anti-racist education in Canada. As cultural mediators within Ontario school systems, these women circumvented subtle and overt forms of racial and social exclusion to create resistive teaching methods that centred black knowledges and traditions. Within their wider communities and activist circles, they fought to change entrenched ideas about what Canadian citizenship should look like. As schools continue to grapple with creating diverse educational programs for all Canadians, Schooling the System is a timely excavation of the meaningful contributions of black women educators who helped create equitable policies and practices in schools and communities.

Author : Gail P. Kelly,Carolyn M. Elliott
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1983-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438408705

Get Book

Women's Education in the Third World by Gail P. Kelly,Carolyn M. Elliott Pdf

Gail Kelly and Carolyn Elliott have assembled the latest and best available scholarship from a range of disciplines to illuminate the determinants, nature, and outcomes of women's education in third World nations. This study focuses on the undereducation of women in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, delving into its causes, changes in female education patterns and the significance of these changes to societies and to women's lives. Articles in this volume lay the foundation for further research by examining women's schooling from the novel perspective that the social and economic outcomes of women's education are shaped by gender-sex systems that subordinate women to men.

Author : S. P. Agrawal
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social status
ISBN : 8170228395

Get Book

Women's Education in India, 1995-98 by S. P. Agrawal Pdf

Author : M. Nash
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137050359

Get Book

Women's Education in the United States, 1780-1840 by M. Nash Pdf

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Winner of 2005 American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critic's Choice Award, this is a groundbreaking from Margaret Nash examining the development of women's education.

Author : Jean Spence,Sarah Aiston,Maureen M. Meikle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135855833

Get Book

Women, Education, and Agency, 1600-2000 by Jean Spence,Sarah Aiston,Maureen M. Meikle Pdf

This collection of essays brings together an international roster of contributors to provide historical insight into women’s agency and activism in education throughout from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Topics discussed range from the strategies adopted by individual women to achieve a personal education and the influence of educated women upon their social environment, to the organized efforts of groups of women to pursue broader feminist goals in an educational context. The collection is designed to recover the variety of the voices of women inhabiting different geographical and social contexts while highlighting commonality and continuity with reference to creativity, achievement, and the management and transgression of structures of gender inequality.

Author : Sally Ann Waller
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399012324

Get Book

Pioneering Women’s Education by Sally Ann Waller Pdf

Although much less well known than some other nineteenth century female campaigners, such as Florence Nightingale or Emmeline Pankhurst, Dorothea Beale is nonetheless deserving of wide recognition for her pioneering, and at times radical, ideas. Dorothea's work for the education of girls made just as significant an impact on the liberation of women as did that of Florence Nightingale in ennobling the nursing profession or Emmeline Pankhurst in drawing attention to women's political inferiority. Although very much a woman of her times, through her work as Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies' College, her writings, her speeches and her widespread involvement in societies promoting women's interests, Dorothea helped to show what women were capable of, providing them with greater confidence and self-belief. Drawing on a wide range of original sources, this book traces Dorothea's life and work. It considers the formative influences of her youth, her response to the disappointments of her early career and examines how her own educational ideas evolved, were put into practice and came to influence schools and colleges both at home and abroad. As well as an in-depth analysis of her pioneering work in Cheltenham, her many other interests, connections and involvements, including her contribution to the suffrage campaign are also explored. However this book is not just a story of one woman's achievements, great though they were. There is an attempt to understand Dorothea as a person with reflections on her character and personal life throughout and the book ends with an appraisal of the many contradictions to be found in this intriguing 'conservative reformer'. Dorothea Beale was a woman whose quiet and unassuming manner hid a strong sense of vocation, a fierce determination and an undoubted practical ability to achieve her ends. Dorothea would have been amazed at the changes that occurred in the position of women in the century after her death in 1906, and yet it was in no small measure thanks to her work that this breakthrough in female opportunities occurred.

Author : Suran Agrawal,S. P. Agrawal,J. C. Aggarwal
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 8170225442

Get Book

Second Historical Survey of Women's Education in India, 1988-1994 by Suran Agrawal,S. P. Agrawal,J. C. Aggarwal Pdf

This Volume Provides An Overview Of The State Of Women`S Education In India Since 1988 In All Its Aspects In The Light Of National Policy On Education (Npe, 1986) And Its Programme Of Action (Poa).

Author : Jill Ker Conway,Susan Carolyn Bourque
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : 0472083287

Get Book

The Politics of Women's Education by Jill Ker Conway,Susan Carolyn Bourque Pdf

Third World women and men discuss efforts to improve the position of women through education

Author : S. P. Agrawal,J. C. Aggarwal
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : 8170223180

Get Book

Women's Education in India by S. P. Agrawal,J. C. Aggarwal Pdf

Author : Shailaja Paik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317673316

Get Book

Dalit Women's Education in Modern India by Shailaja Paik Pdf

Inspired by egalitarian doctrines, the Dalit communities in India have been fighting for basic human and civic rights since the middle of the nineteenth century. In this book, Shailaja Paik focuses on the struggle of Dalit women in one arena - the realm of formal education – and examines a range of interconnected social, cultural and political questions. What did education mean to women? How did changes in women’s education affect their views of themselves and their domestic work, public employment, marriage, sexuality, and childbearing and rearing? What does the dissonance between the rhetoric and practice of secular education tell us about the deeper historical entanglement with modernity as experienced by Dalit communities? Dalit Women's Education in Modern India is a social and cultural history that challenges the triumphant narrative of modern secular education to analyse the constellation of social, economic, political and historical circumstances that both opened and closed opportunities to many Dalits. By focusing on marginalised Dalit women in modern Maharashtra, who have rarely been at the centre of systematic historical enquiry, Paik breathes life into their ideas, expectations, potentials, fears and frustrations. Addressing two major blind spots in the historiography of India and of the women’s movement, she historicises Dalit women’s experiences and constructs them as historical agents. The book combines archival research with historical fieldwork, and centres on themes including slum life, urban middle classes, social and sexual labour, and family, marriage and children to provide a penetrating portrait of the actions and lives of Dalit women. Elegantly conceived and convincingly argued, Dalit Women's Education in Modern India will be invaluable to students of History, Caste Politics, Women and Gender Studies, Education Studies, Urban Studies and Asian studies.

Author : Xiaoyan Liu
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643908179

Get Book

The Changing Face of Women's Education in China by Xiaoyan Liu Pdf

This book offers a critical study on the history of Shanghai No.3 Girls' Middle School, from its missionary predecessors, St. Mary's Hall and McTyeire School, to its present form as a public school. By bringing together three historical periods, late imperial, the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, and their respective political regimes into one project and tracing continuities and discontinuities in terms of education between the Nationalists and Communists, the book argues that education in Chinese modern history affords another example of "continuous revolution." Dissertation. (Series: Sinologie, Vol. 5) [Subject: Education, Chinese Studies, Asian Studies, Gender Studies, History, Politics]

Author : R.C. Mishra
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Women
ISBN : 8176488844

Get Book

Women Education by R.C. Mishra Pdf

In Indian context.

Author : Grace C.L. Mak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135522414

Get Book

Women, Education, and Development in Asia by Grace C.L. Mak Pdf

This volume of twelve original essays examines the interplay between women's education and development, and if and how it has changed women's status, in selected nations in Asia. Educational expansion in recent decades have benefitted women in Asia at least in quantitative terms. Industrialization has also created room for increased waged employment for them. However, the relative openness of these systems has not been paralleled at the cultural level. Women in Asia, which remains largely patriarchal, are thus caught in contradictions. This volume examines how women use and compromise with opportunities and limits in education, the role of education in their economic participation, and the enhancement and tension brought to their family roles. The volume is edited from a cross-national perspective. The chapters, each covering a nation, rest on a common framework. Each begins with a brief historical account of education fore women. It then investigates the extent women have been able to take advantage of them. What follows is an analysis of how women use their education in the labor market and in the family. Society's definition of women's roles in the family often acts to reduce the effect of schooling on women's economic participation. This interplay is further complicated by such factors as social class and/or caste, religion and ethnicity.