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Gender Equity and the Boys Debate: what sort of challenge is it?
- Source :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education; Sep97, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p337-347, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 1997
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Abstract
- Recently public and policy discussions about gender equity have become strongly concerned with boys This article discusses some aspects of the form, the context and the implications of these developments in Australia (and notes some points of similarity and difference with developments in the UK) It focuses on three main areas the ways examination and other `indicators' have been wed in public policy constructions of gender inequality, secondly, the issue of what types of reforms constitute gender equity as a project and thirdly, the issue of research agendas and the entry of masculinity to gender research [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- POLITICAL planning
GENDER
EQUALITY
MASCULINITY
PUBLIC welfare
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01425692
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 9710101692
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0142569970180302