This book is a collection of scientific and practice orientated papers that can be acknowledged from four different angles: gender and teachers, teaching approaches, labor market outcomes, and sexual education. Additionally, the book describes the European project known as 'EDGE: Education and Gender.' A key aspect of the project was testing curriculum material, developed by the EDGE group, to be used in single and co-educative class groups to find the effects of single-sex education on motivation. The results of this randomized experiment within secondary education are also included in the book. .One of the articles in the book is about enriching excellent boys and girls in the Netherlands.
This publication shares new knowledge emerging from a wide variety of countries and from different cultural perspectives. Some western countries have experienced in recent years a focus on the “boy problem,” with an underlying assumption that issues of females and mathematics have been solved and are no longer worthy of interest. it seemed important to look at the issue of gender and mathematics internationally. Authors were charged to focus on gender issues in mathematics and focus on the issues that were central to their own research efforts, or were in receipt or in need of close attention in their own national or regional contexts.