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Posts tagged gender_equity
Why are gender and racial equity in schools important? 

If you’ve been following us for a while, then you have followed us as we’ve expanded our content and focus to include school culture and climate. However, we still care very deeply about issues of race and gender and believe that these concerns are still part of our core mission. In fact, gender and racial inequities are closely related to school culture and climate. Below, we talk about some of the connections that we see.

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Equality Can’t Wait in Education

You’ve likely seen the splashy, celebrity-packed Equality Can’t Wait campaign videos that recently circulated on social media. The organization is an offshoot of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which focuses on achieving parity for women across sectors: specifically, economic participation and opportunity, political empowerment, health and survival, and educational attainment. At present, the World Economic Forum estimates that it will take the United States 208 years to achieve gender equality. However, Melinda Gates just wrote a lengthy piece for the Harvard Business Review in which she details the steps she believes are necessary to achieve gender equality much sooner. She summarizes her vision as “a future in which an increased number of Americans want women to exert greater power and influence in our society.”

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