Gender inequities are not limited to the experiences of women who teach or lead in education – as we’ve documented here, students also bear the brunt in inequitable practices in schools, districts, and educational organizations. Importantly, inequity is not limited to different treatment of the genders, but instead extends to the range of identities a person might represent (see our brief introduction to intersectionality). Yet we know that gender bias manifests in classrooms in a couple of ways: girls may be called on less frequently than boys, be assigned to lead groups less frequently than boys, girls who evince more traditionally masculine characteristics may be subject to school-based consequences, and students who identify as nonbinary or trans may be erased or persecuted.
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