Education and Gender Equality

Abstract

Part 1 Gender, the state and education: gender and education in the welfare state, Julia Wrigley education, gender and economic development - a cross-national study, Aaron Benavot women in education from a Swedish perspective, Ingrid Jonsson postsecondary education of white women in 1900, Nancy E Durbin & Lord Kent. Part 2 Diversity, social control and resistance in classrooms: race and the schooling of young girls, Linda Grant girls and boys together - but most apart - gender arrangements in elementary schools, Barrie Thorne responding to differences in the classroom - the politics of knowledge, class and sexuality, Sandra Gardner, Cynthia Dean & Deo McKaig. Part 3 Gender and knowledge: why does Jane read and write so well? the anomaly of women's achievement, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson working class women's ways of knowing - effects of gender, race and class, Wendy Luttrell social production of gender equality - a cross-national study of educational and occupational opportunity and gender differences in school mathematics, Deborah Perkins and David P Baker. Part 4 Families and schools: gender differences in parent involvement in schooling, Annette Lareau the educational contest for middle and working class women - the reproduction of inequality, Merrilee Krysa Finley.

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