Interdisciplinary Seminar:
Education for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

Convener: Kathy Mumford, Australia

The Call for papers for Interdisciplinary Seminars is now closed. Below please find the list of papers for this Seminar. Click on the title of a paper to read its abstract.

Factors affecting the participation and performance of girls in science subjects in Bauchi town, Nigeria
Omolola Alao, Nigerian Association of University Women

If you educate a man you educate an individual, and if you educate a woman you educate a nation: the role of the woman with higher education as a catalyst of change in Africa in general, and in Ghana in particular
Mildred Asmah, International Member, Ghana

Tackling Gender Disparity in Primary and Secondary Education
Ranjana Banerjee, Indian Federation of University Women’s Associations

Education for the Empowerment of Women
Sabita Chuganee, Indian Federation of University Women’s Associations

Helping on the Long Walk to Academic Literacy: The Role of a Writing Consultant in the new South Africa

Shirley Churms, South African Association of Women Graduates

Experience in Teaching Human Rights
Susanna Dehler, Swiss Association of University Women

The Women’s Museum Proposal
Patricia Galeana, Mexican Federation of University Women

Contemporary Coming of Age: Redefining and Reclaiming Girls' Rites of Paggage to Womanhood in Developed and Developing Cultures

Lauri L. Hyers, International Member, USA

From Ignorance to Empowerment: Legal Literacy holds the Key to Women’s Human Security
Jyotika Kalra and Mina Singh, Indian Federation of University Women’s Associations

Culture-specific violence and intervention
Sunanda Koushik, Indian Federation of University Women’s Associations

But who will teach the children? Global teacher recruitment and sustainable education
Madeleine Mattarozzi Laming, Australian Federation of University Women

Back to school projects for drop-out girls is the only tool to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education
Bertha Edard Mkwelele, International Member, Tanzania

Reinforcing Cultural Identity
Alba Claudia Romano, Non-member, Argentina
This paper will honour Dr. Adriana B. Martino of the Argentina Federation of University Women, who had proposed a paper shortly before her unexpected death.

Curriculum Change and Gender Empowerment

Anne Holden Rønning, Norwegian Federation of University Women

Young Religious Women Study Torah: A Means of Personal Empowerment
Rina Shachar, Israel Association of University Women

Education for gender equality and the empowerment of women through modification of traditional roles
Manjeet Sharma, Indian Federation of University Women’s Associations

Growth in Education of Women in India: with regard to Primary and Secondary Education
Achala Srivastava, Indian Federation of University Women’s Associations

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