This week, my goal in the C-Suite is to define and demystify a term that appears increasingly in educational equity literature and practice: intersectionality. We’ve referenced intersectionality a few times in AEC blogs, but this week’s deep dive is useful for two reasons: 1) We are committed to bringing cutting-edge knowledge to education leaders and 2) we believe that equipping leaders for education equity includes the exploration and application of useful theoretical frameworks. The blog that follows, then, is structured differently than previous C-Suite roundups. Instead, I offer a brief introduction to the history of intersectionality and then use the roundup portion to demonstrate how critical intersectional work is to all gender equity efforts in education leadership.
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