Gender Matters: Changing gender equity policies and practices in Australian secondary schooling in low SES contexts

Susanne Gannon, Kerry Robinson and Prue Adams (PhD)

Australian Research Council Discovery. Gender-related issues are significant in the lives of young people. In many Australian secondary schools, however, there may be no safe space to explore them. Despite widespread concerns about gender-related issues in schools and society, system-wide policies on gender equity have almost disappeared. This three-year research study, Gender Matters: Changing gender equity policies and practices in Australian secondary schooling, examines the contemporary policy and practice gap in gender equity in schooling, in relation to earlier approaches. It aims to examine and refresh gendered explanations of inequity and design new approaches for an era of rapid social, cultural and technological change and competing policy agendas.

Find out more: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/gender-matters