The Sage Encyclopedia of Education and Gender

Elizabeth E. Blair, Sherry L. Deckman

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781071926659
• eBook ISBN: 9781071926673
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Gender is a prominent and often-contested issue in educational settings across the globe. While understandings of gender and academic and professional potential, roles and expectations, and opportunities and abilities have greatly expanded over the past century in various contexts, schools remain sites of intense conflict around definitions of gender and gendered access and expression. For example, in the US there is growing public backlash against recognizing gender diversity in schools, with educators being called to make their teaching more inclusive, while schools debate what representations are permissible and parents bring legal action against school districts over recognizing students' chosen gender expression. Furthermore, educational access and outcomes have nuanced gendered patterns to which educators and educational researchers must be attentive. For example, in India, growing literacy rates among youth now show gender parity, while across age groups men show higher literacy rates than women. In Afghanistan, girls have recently been restricted from attending school. Globally, school attendance among youth who menstruate is reduced because of lack of access to menstrual health products. In the US (and many Western countries), women are more likely to graduate high school and college than men, with the US showing the greatest degree attainment disparities between women and men of color. However, US women still advance in STEM fields at persistently lower rates than men, a pattern contrasted by the rapid rise of women earning the majority of STEM degrees in China. These examples begin to show the nuance of gendered educational patterns, with perspectives growing in complexity as our understandings of gender shift and change, moving beyond the traditional gender binary.

Yet, despite rapid changes in gendered educational patterns and in how education scholars conceptualize and study gender, the field lacks a recent, comprehensive resource text. This two-volume encyclopedia, a unique compendium on gender and education with an expansive and inclusive approach, will address this urgent need. Featuring a broad range of 250-300 well-researched, short articles written by global experts in the field, this much-needed guide will be an essential, first-stop resource for students and scholars exploring issues of gender and education, as well as educators caught in a rapidly changing and nuanced field.

A central strength of this encyclopedia will be its broad, nuanced, and inclusive exploration of gender. Entries will explore topics of gender and education comprehensively, through an intersectional lens, covering issues of gender equity, identity, and inclusivity in education that impact women, girls, men, boys, trans, genderqueer, and nonbinary people. As education is an interdisciplinary field, the Encyclopedia will draw from perspectives in sociology, anthropology, psychology, policy studies, leadership, philosophy, history, economics, law, curriculum studies, public health, race & ethnic studies, and women, gender, & queer studies.

 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Editorial Board
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• List of Entries
• About the Editors
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Academic Careers and Gender
• Achievement, Retention, and Graduation in Higher Education
• Affect Theory
• Albinism, Gender, and Schooling
• Art Education
• Arts-Based Research Methods
• Asian Boyhoods
• Asian Diasporic Girlhoods
• Asian Higher Education Students
• Assessment and Standardized Testing, Gender and
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Gender
• Attire in Education, Gendering and Racializing of
• Autism and Gender
• Bathrooms and Trans Rights
• Black Boyhoods and BlackBoyCrit
• Black Feminisms
• Black Feminist Pedagogies, Contemporary
• Black Fraternities and Sororities
• Black Girlhoods
• Black Students in Higher Education
• Black Women Teachers, Histories of
• Body Positivity
• Book Bans
• Boy Turn in Gender Equity Debates
• Boys’ Achievement and Attainment in Primary and Secondary Education, Decline in
• Campus Women’s Centers
• Care, Ethics of
• Catholic Sisters and Schooling
• Chicana Feminisms
• Child Marriage
• Children’s Media, Gender in
• Christianity, Schooling, and Gender
• Cisgender and Cisnormativity
• Coeducation
• College Access
• Compulsory Heterogenderism
• Computing and Gender
• Consciousness Raising
• Culture Wars and Education
• Curriculum, Representations in
• Cyberbullying
• Decline of Men in Higher Education
• Decolonial Trans* Feminism
• Depression, Anxiety, and Gender
• Desire, Girls’
• Development in Childhood and Adolescence
• Digital Divide
• Disability and Identity
• Disability Diagnosis: Gender Disparities Across Categories
• DisCrit and Gender
• Early Childhood Education, Gender and
• Eating Disorders
• Education for All 2000–2015
• Elite Higher Education, Gender and
• Elite Secondary Education, Gender and
• Emotional Expression, Boys’
• Evolving Gendered Lenses in Education Discourse
• Extracurricular Organizations in Higher Education
• Feminist Digital Youth Work
• Feminist Environmental Education
• Feminist Materialisms and Relationality
• Feminist Methodologies
• Feminist Pedagogies
• Feminist Posthumanism
• Feminist Research Ethics
• Femtorship
• First-Generation and Low-Income College Students
• First-Wave Feminism and Suffrage, Black Women and
• For-Profit Higher Education
• Fraternities
• Gaming
• Gender Activist Pedagogies
• Gender and Drop-Out in Latin America
• Gender and Education in Latin America
• Gender and Mathematics in Primary and Secondary Schooling
• Gender and Science in Primary and Secondary Schooling
• Gender Binary
• Gender Discrimination in the Education Workplace
• Gender Equality Movements of the 1970s and 1980s
• Gender Equity Policy in Australia
• Gender Expression
• Gender Identity
• Gender Performativity and Embodiment in Schools
• Gender Relationalities
• Gender-Role Attitudes and Socialization
• Gender Similarities and Differences
• Gender Subjectivities
• Gender Transformative Education
• Gender Versus Sex
• Gender, Education, and International Development
• Gender, Parental Leave, and Professional Advancement in Higher Education
• Gender, Technology, and Engineering in Primary and Secondary Schooling
• Gendered Access to the Professions
• Gendered Care Work in Academia
• Gendered Cultures
• Gendered Histories of the Education Workforce
• Gender-Expansive and Democratizing Teacher Education
• Gendering of Academic Disciplines
• Gendering of The Early Childhood Education Profession
• Gender-Neutral Education
• Girl Activists
• Girls’ Education in Africa, History of
• Girls’ Education in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, History of
• Girls’ Education in Europe, History of
• Girls’ Education in India
• Girls’ Education in Japan and Taiwan, History of
• Girls’ Education in Malawi
• Girls’ Education in North America, History of
• Girls’ Education in South America, History of
• Girls’ Education in the Middle East
• Girls, STEM, and Coding
• Girls’ Education in Afghanistan
• Global Policy Platforms
• Good Girl Trope
• GSAs
• Health Education
• Heterosexual Matrix
• Hidden Curriculum and Gender
• Hijabi Girlhoods
• Hip-Hop
• Human Rights Education
• Immigrant Education and Gender
• Immigrant Primary and Secondary Student Experiences
• Immigrant and Undocumented Students in Higher Education
• Imposter Feelings in Academic Work
• Indigeneity and Gender
• Indigeneity in Higher Education
• Indigeneity in Latin American Higher Education
• Indigenous Feminisms
• International Organizations
• International Students in Higher Education
• Intersectional Identities of Higher Education Students
• Intersectionality
• Intersex and Differences in Sex Development Identities
• Intersex Movements
• Islamic Feminisms
• Jewish Religious Education for Women in Israel
• Jotería Pedagogy
• Latina Girlhoods
• Latine/x Students in Higher Education
• Latinx Boyhoods
• Leadership Approaches and Priorities
• Leadership in Higher Education, Women and
• Leadership in Primary and Secondary Education
• Life Skills Education
• Literacy
• Literacy, Critical Intersectional Approaches, Gender and
• Madrasas
• Menstruation
• Mentoring in Higher Education
• Meta-Analysis, Gender and
• Microaggressions
• Military Academies and Gender
• Misogynoir in Education
• Moral Development, Voice, and Gender
• Motherhood and Teaching
• Motherscholar
• Muslim Boyhoods
• Neoliberalism and Education
• Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Images
• Othermothering
• Out-of-School Responsibilities and Gender
• Parental Involvement
• Parenting Students in Secondary Education
• Peer Pressure
• Physical Education and Gender
• Positionality
• Postcolonial Feminism
• Pregnancy and Parenting Students in Higher Education
• Pregnancy and Secondary Education
• Privilege
• Queer and Trans Pedagogies
• Queer Literacies
• Refugee Education
• Resilience, Black Girls and
• Respectability
• Restorative Practices
• Roma Students and Gender
• Safe Spaces and Allyship
• School Bullying
• School Counseling, Gender and
• School Discipline
• School Rituals
• School Violence and Mass Shootings
• School Vouchers, Gender and
• Scouting
• Second-Wave Feminism
• Sex Trafficking
• Sexism
• Sexting
• Sextortion
• Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
• Sexual Harassment and Assault, Prevention of
• Sexuality Education
• Sign Language–English Interpreting, Gender, and Higher Education
• Silences, Listening to
• Single-Sex Education, History of
• Single-Sex Higher Education
• Social Media and Gender
• Sororities
• Space
• Special Education and Learning (Dis)Abilities
• Sports and Gender
• STEM: Girls and Women
• Stereotype Threat
• Student Activism and Protest, Gender and
• Student Debt, Women and
• Student Evaluation of Teaching, Gender and
• Student Pregnancy: Global Perspectives
• Students with (Dis)abilities and Gender-Based Violence
• Student–Teacher Relationships
• Substance Use and Gender
• Suicidality and Gender
• Teacher Bias
• Teacher Education and Gender
• Teacher Recruitment and Retention, Black Women
• Teacher Recruitment and Retention, Men of Color
• Teacher Shortage and Men
• Teacher Well-Being and Mental Health
• Teachers of Color, Experiences of
• Textbook Bias
• Third-Wave Feminism
• Title IX
• Trans and Genderqueer Student Experiences in Higher Education
• Trans and Genderqueer Student Experiences in Primary and Secondary Education
• Trans Issues, Teaching of
• Trans Methodologies
• Trans Rights in Primary and Secondary Schools
• Trans Students and Higher Education Policy
• Trans Students, Sports, and Physical Education
• Trans Teacher Experiences
• Trans Youth Subjectivities
• Transnational Feminisms
• Vocational Education and Training
• White Boyhoods
• White Teacher Fragility
• Whole School Approach to Addressing Gender-Based Violence
• Womanist Movement
• Women and STEM in Policy
• Women and STEM: Achievement and Performance
• Women and STEM: Faculty Issues
• Women and STEM: Identity and Sense of Belonging
• Women in STEM: Mentoring
• Women in STEM: Motivation, Persistence, and Retention
• Women and STEM: Pipeline or Pathways
• Women And STEM: Stereotypes and Biases
• Women of Color in STEM
• Women Teachers as Role Models
• Women, Romance, and Intimate Relationships in Higher Education
• Women’s and Gender Studies
• Women’s Suffrage and Education
• Working-Class Femininities and Schooling
• Working-Class Masculinities and Schooling
• Youth Digital Activism
• Youth Femininities
• Youth Masculinities
• Youth Mental Health and the Covid-19 Pandemic
• Youth Violence and Gender
• Youth, Families, and the Carceral State
• Index