Achieving the Millennium Development Goal to promote gender equality and to empower women is a continuing aim for all developing countries. Education is key to achieving this goal, and it is imperative that gender equality is implemented from the classroom onwards. The challenge for schools is to ensure that they create an ethos that promotes gender equality in all aspects of the classroom and other school activities.

Through seven case studies of secondary schools in India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Samoa, Seychelles, and Trinidad & Tobago, Exploring the Bias analyzes whether schools perpetuate gender stereotypes and investigates how this can be prevented.

By comparing classroom practices in such diverse countries, this book provides insights and recommendations that will be useful for policy-makers and educators worldwide.

Table of Contents:

List of Tables, Figures and Boxes; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Contributors; 1) School, Gender and Stereotypes: Despair and Hope; 2) Unravelling Multiple Dimensions of Gender in Seychelles; 3) Sex or Gender Equity: the Organisation of Schooling in Trinidad and Tobago; 4) Making Gender Sense in Malaysian Secondary Schools; 5) Education, Gender and Fa’aSamoa: ‘the Samoan Way of Doing Things’; 6) A Gendered Analysis of Secondary Schooling Processes in India; 7) Gendered Education: A Case Study of Schools in Pakistan; 8) The Reproduction of Gendered Inequalities in Nigerian Secondary Schools; Glossary of Gender Terms; Glossary of Non-English Words and Phrases; Bibliography and References.