Gender and Education

Exploration of the multiple and complex relationships between gender and education, primarily in the context of formalized schooling. Topics include the history of women's education; gender identity and socialization, gender discrimination and biases in curriculum and classroom teaching, gender gaps in academic performance, stratification in schools, and the relationship between educational choices and gender. In all topics, gender will be explored in connection with other socially constructed aspects of identity, such as race, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation.