1st Edition
Subverting Social Inequalities Gender as a Social Reality
With the goal to facilitate advancing gender equality in challenging times, this volume investigates gender inequality in several areas and advocates for equality of rights for men and women as a prerequisite for a peaceful, wealthy, and sustainable world.
Foreword by Vibhuti Patel, Vice President, Indian Association for Women‘s Studies
Introduction
1. Gender Bias, Internalization, and Reinforcement in Classroom Discourse: A Case Study of Communicative English Classrooms in Vietnam
Nhung Hong Thi Nguyen and Tram Ngoc Ngo
2. A Narrative Enquiry into Intersections of Professional Identity and Gender Identity Construction in Academia
Disha Maheshwari and Akanksha Srivastava
3. Gender-Based Socialization Within the Formal System of Education: With Special Reference to Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Learners Occupying the Classrooms
Manvi Arora
4. The Girl-Child Education: An Assessment of the Gender-Illiteracy Nexus in Nigeria
Abel Ebiega Enokela
5. Gender Disparity in the Adoption of ICT
Kritika Gosain
6. Gender Difference in Mathematics Performance: A Global Perspective
Rekha Kaushal
7. Influence of the ‘Gender School Concept’ on Gender Role Behavior and Gender Equality: A Sri Lankan Context
Amila Rupasinghe
8. "They‘re Already on the Moon While We‘re Still Stuck in the Stone Age": Exploring the Language of Gender (In)Equality in German Workplaces from an Employee‘s Perspective
Vivian Steurer and Stephanie Schnurr
9. Feminization of the Labor Force in the Waste Sector: A Case Study of Kerala, India
S. Rakendu, Neelam Rana, and N. C. Narayanan
10. The Paradox of Gender Equality in the Corporate World
Supriya Lamba Sahdev, Chitra Krishnan, Kiran Nair, and Ashutosh Sharad
11. "When People Heard I Was Going Instead of My Husband, Everyone Was Shocked and Discriminated Against Us": Exploring the Gendering of Professional Mobility from the Perspective of a Non-Elite Migrant
Yesim Kakalic, Marianna Slutskaya, and Stephanie Schnurr
12. Inequality in the Land of Opportunity: A Case Study on the Gender Differences in Pursuing the American Dream for Indian Immigrants
Ashika Srivastava
13. A Study on Barriers Women Face to Sustain Educational Leadership Positions in Sri Lanka: How Sri Lanka Educational Administrative Service Female Officers Cope with the Barriers
Thanuja Maithrie Witharana
14. Navigating Uncertainty: Advancing Gender Equality in Challenging Times
Jasmine Mariappan, Abdulla Thanseer, Mohamed Riyas, and Joshi Raghavan Edassery
15. Indian Women Entrepreneurs: Challenges and Emerging Issues
Seema Garg
16. Gender Equality: The Need of the Hour in Times of Uncertainty
Shikha Kapoor
Biography
Akanksha Srivastava, PhD, is an experienced academician, writer, and editor with over 15 years of
experience in the education industry. She is an Associate Professor with the School of Education,
Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. In addition to her work as an editor, she is also an
accomplished author. Her research interests include the intersection of inclusion with a focus on
women’s experiences, on which she has published extensively. As the editor of this volume, Dr.
Srivastava brought together a diverse group of scholars to explore the various themes and topics
related to the history of gender and sexuality in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the USA.
Disha Maheshwari, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the School of Education at Sharda
University, India. She was a Commonwealth Scholar at the Centre for Applied Linguistics,
University of Warwick, Coventry, England. At Sharda University, she teaches courses on gender
studies, communication, and research methodology in education (qualitative) at the undergraduate
and postgraduate levels and on pedagogy at PhD level. She has presented her research work
around the world, including at Cambridge, Stockholm, Hong Kong, Warwick, Oslo (virtual),
Tamil Nadu, Punjab, etc. Her areas of interest are gender and education, discourse and identity, and
higher education pedagogy.
Chitra Krishnan, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Behavioral
Science at the Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies, Noida, India. She has a number of
publications in acclaimed journals at the national and international levels and has also participated
in many national and international conferences. She is passionate about writing and has seven
books to her credit with international publishers. She has been a member of the review committees
for conferences and journals. Her area of interest includes human resource management,
organizational behavior, talent management, diversity management, employee satisfaction,
knowledge management, artificial intelligence, and emotional intelligence.
"Refreshing to read as the chapters are analytically robust, lucid in style, maintain logical flow, and bring nuanced insights on a wide range of thematic areas. The overarching concern of this anthology is to examine two crucial areas of gendered realities: education and workforce. . . . [A] timely publication [that] gains great significance to identify the roots of hurdles and major challenges in approaching gender equality and finding solutions to them. . . . An important resource for policymakers, political and development practitioners, employers and educationists, and of course students, research scholars, and teachers."
—From the Foreword by Vibhuti Patel, Vice President, Indian Association for Women‘s Studies
