Gender, Equality and Education from International and Comparative Perspectives -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Note from series senior editor -- Chapter 1. Sex versus SES: A declining significance of gender for schooling in sub-Saharan Africa? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. To shift or not to shift? The pre-conditions -- 4. Methods and data -- 5. Findings -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 2. The pedagogy of difference: Understanding Teachers' Beliefs and Practice of Gender Equity in Benin -- Move toward gender equality in education -- Educational landscape in Benin -- Pedagogy of difference in Benin -- Teachers' beliefs and practice of gender equity -- Implications for research, policy, and practice -- Final thoughts -- Notes -- References -- Appendix 1. Teacher attitudes survey -- Part 1. Students' Academic Capability And Performance -- Part 2. The Importance of Education -- Part 3. The Management Of Non-Academic Behavior -- Part 4. Teaching and Learning -- Part 5. General ENERAL INFORMATION -- Appendix 2. Content and cronbach's alpha values of the subset of items used to form the question and outcome composite variables -- Appendix 3. Mean, standard error, and difference in teachers' perceptions (with p-values) of girls' and boys' academic capability, academic performance, subject matter importance, and non-academic behavior and and characteristics. (nequals324) -- Chapter 3. Learning from experience: Improving equality of access and outcomes for girls in Uganda's universal post-primary education and training initiative -- Introduction -- Universal primary and post-primary education: The world context -- Gender issues in post-primary education worldwide -- Ugandan context: Unique features of the educational system.

UPPET: A successful model for change? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4. Sugar daddies and the danger of sugar: Cross-generational relationships, HIV/AIDS, and secondary schooling in Zambia -- Methodology -- Constructing the sugar daddy phenomenon -- Cross-generational relationships in and around schools -- Blaming the victim: Social attitudes toward cross-generational relationships -- Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 5. Limits of and possibilities for equality: An analysis of discourse and practices of gendered relations, ethnic traditions, and poverty among non-majority ethnic girls in Vietnam -- Introduction -- Education and non-majority ethnic girls in Vietnam: The present situation -- Poverty, ethnic groups, and women in Vietnam -- Analytical framework -- Methodology and methods -- Background on Khmer, Hmong, Gia-Rai and Ba-Na ethnic groups -- Findings -- Physical capabilities -- Economic and social capabilities -- Cultural capabilities -- Approaches for enhancing capabilities for gender and ethnic equality -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 6. What matters for Chinese girls' behavior and performance in school: An investigation of co-educational and single-sex schooling for girls in urban China -- Introduction -- Review of relevant literature -- Data and methods -- Findings -- Discussion and conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Appendix A. Variable definitions -- Appendix B. Means and standard deviations for dependent and independent variables used in regressions -- Chapter 7 . Gender gap and women's participation in higher education: Views from Japan, Mongolia, and India -- Introduction -- The case of Japan -- The case of Mongolia -- The case of India -- Concluding thoughts -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Chapter 8 . Re-gendered education and society in the newly independent states (NIS) of Central Asia -- Goals, methodologies and structure of this chapter -- Historical background: Soviet legacy, education and the ''Woman's Question'' -- Education, economic development and gender in Central Asia -- Statistical ''snapshots'' of the region since 1990 -- Ethnographic evidence from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan -- Education and gender in Uzbekistan -- Education and gender in Kyrgyzstan -- Education, profession and gender in Tajikistan -- Summary observations -- References -- Chapter 9. Issues of gender, equality, education, and national development in the United Arab Emirates -- Introduction -- Education and Islam: The historical context -- Female education in Muslim societies -- Theoretical perspectives for examining educational development, modernization, borrowing, and internal-external influences in the UAE -- The United Arab Emirates: The regional context -- Education in the UAE -- Rapid growth in UAE educational provision -- Higher and tertiary education in the UAE -- Issues of gender in education in the UAE -- Voices from the classroom -- The future of education in the UAE: Prospects for gender equality? -- A look ahead: Concluding thoughts -- References -- Chapter 10. Gender segregation in student career aspirations in Norwegian secondary schools -- Introduction -- Background of the study -- Theories and previous research on career aspiration -- Data and methods -- Results -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 11. Gender differences in political efficacy and attitudes toward women's rights as influenced by national and school contexts: Analysis from the IEA Civic Education Study -- Previous research on gender and civic engagement -- Gender differences and the IEA Civic Education Study -- The current study.

Data and methodology -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Appendix. Details about the multilevel model -- Chapter 12. Shifting gender effects: Opportunity structures, institutionalized mass schooling, and cross-national achievement in mathematics -- 1. Opportunity structure and gender effects -- 2. Incorporation of women and the role of mass schooling -- 3. Empirical case of gender and mathematics -- 4. A cross-national perspective on gender effects on mathematics performance -- Notes -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.