Projects
Equbusiness: Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards Odisee vzw
Rethinking African Gender Histories: Time, Change and the Deeper Past in Northern Mozambique Ghent University
This project aims at rethinking ways of reading and writing change in African gender history. Looking at oral historical narratives and the transgenerational communication of historical knowledge among the Yaawo-speaking people in northern Mozambique, it brings the study of gender in African deeper pasts in dialogue with a cultural analysis of the contemporary historical moment. My starting argument is that our understanding of the ...
A gender gap in the classroom? Different perceptions of student engagement and teacher support KU Leuven
Boys are generally less successful at school than girls, especially in secondary education. More specifically, they tend to show lower achievement, higher dropout rates, and lower student engagement. Teacher support has been found to positively influence students’ engagement and achievement. However, boys and girls might perceive the support of their teachers differently. Moreover, teacher support could relate to boys’ and girls’ outcomes ...
Integration of gender in the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda of Action. University of Antwerp
Improving gender balance in the transition from STEM secondary education to STEM higher education in Rwanda KU Leuven
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education in general, and for girls in particular, is prominent in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Empirical research shows that gender imbalances in
attitudes towards STEM tend to be smaller in Sub-Sahara Africa, compared to the West; a trend confirmed in our 2021 Global Minds Multistakeholder research project implemented in Kayonza, Rwanda. Our data and
stakeholder ...
Visualising and measuring the role of industrial relations in addressing gender equality KU Leuven
VIRAGE aims to study how industrial relations and social dialogue can shape progress towards the achievement of gender equality in Europe. Given that gender equality is a multifaceted concept, encompassing many dimensions, VIRAGE considers several aspects of gender equality related to the labour market, such as earnings, work-life balance, occupational or sectoral segregation, discrimination, and sexual harassment at the workplace. VIRAGE ...
Towards a more gender sensitive and inclusive academic culture in Ethiopia. KU Leuven
The objective of this VLIR-UOS JOINT project is to develop a gender sensitive academic culture in Ethiopia by increasing the number and improving the skills of young (female) researchers, by organizing three Joint Doctoral Summer Schools (JDSS), based on the three ‘fix’-strategies: fix the number of women, fix the institutions and fix the knowledge. A consortium of three Ethiopian Universities, Arba Minch University, Bahir Dar University and ...
Gender and climate change: perception, vulnerability, and agriculture-related adaptation preferences among male and female headed households in Northwest Ethiopia (GCC-PeVAAP). University of Antwerp
Educational assortative mating in Europe and the reversal of the gender imbalance in tertiary education KU Leuven
The reversal of the gender balance in higher education
A major social development in the second half of the twentieth century has been the dramatic increase of participation in higher education, in particular among women. One important consequence of this development is that differences in the relative educational attainment of men and women have changed: in the past, men were typically more highly educated than women, while today women ...