This book explores gender inequity and the gender gap from a range of perspectives including historical, motherhood, professional life and diversity. Using a narrative approach, the book shares diverse experiences and perspectives of the gender gap and the pervasive impact it has. Through authors' in-depth insights and critical analysis, each chapter addresses the gender gap by providing a nuanced understanding of the impact of the particular lens. It shares a holistic understanding of lived experiences of gender inequity.

The book offers interdisciplinary insights into current political, social, economic and cultural impacts on women and their lived experiences of inequity. It provides multiple voices from across the world and draws on narrative approaches to sharing evidence-based insights. It includes further insights and critique of each chapter to widen the perspectives shared as the gender gap is explored and provide rigorous discussion about what possibilitiesand challenges are inherent in the proposed solutions as well as offering new ones.

Chapter 10 and chapter 11 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Explores gender inequity and how the gender gap plays out in various ways in different context and areas of study Shares diverse experiences and perspectives of the gender gap and its pervasive impacts Uses evidence-based insights and rich narrative traditions to bring meaning to women's experiences Provides unique offering in the wider fields of feminism, women's studies and gender studies

Autorentext

Angela Fitzgerald is an Adjunct Associate Professor (Science Curriculum and Pedagogy) in the School of Education, University of Southern Queensland. Her main focus is engaging in activities that support pre- and in-service teachers in developing their confidence and competence in the learning and teaching of science in primary school settings. She has also engaged in the professional experience space nationally and internationally, which has involved supporting pre-service teachers in their learning to teach journey and building partnerships with education stakeholders. Importantly, in the context of this collection, while Ange's research interests do not align in an obvious way with the underlying themes of this collection, she brings a wealth of editorial experience and expertise. She has solo and co-edited five collections (all involving multiple authors based across Australia and New Zealand) and is the co-editor-in-chief of a Q1 journal (Research in Science Education). Ange has the ability to work with a diverse group of people to deliver projects on time and of a high quality. 

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Setting The Scene: What Is The Gap?.- Part 1: Historicizing The Gap.- Chapter 2. Galician Women Novelists: Triply/Quadruply Invisible?.- Chapter 3. Response To Previous Chapter.- Chapter 4. What Can 21st Century Feminisms Learn From 19th Century Women Writers? A Transhistorical Approach To Gender Gap In Latin American Literatures.- Chapter 5. Response To Previous Chapter.- Part 2: Reconsidering Motherhood.- Chapter 6. The Most Invisible Maternal Experience? Analysing Regretting Motherhood.- Chapter 7. Response To Previous Chapter.- Chapter 8. Temporality Of Female Embodiement In Chronic Pain: Alienation, Displacement, And Ethical Challenges.- Chapter 9. Response To Previous Chapter.- Part 3: Examining Professional Life.- Chapter 10. Reproduction Of The Gender Gap? Parity Attained At The Formal Level-Inequity Reproduced At The Daily Local Level: The Case Of Mexico And Bolivia.- Chapter 11. Response To Previous Chapter.- Chapter 12. Femininity In Dispute: PerspectivesOf A Comparative Study Of Professional Women In Puebla And Barcelona.- Chapter 13. Response To Previous Chapter.- Part 4: Detailing Difference And Diversity.- Chapter 14. Intersectionality Between Disability And Sexuality In A Forced Sterilization Procedure Litigation In Japan.- Chapter 15. Response To Previous Chapter.- Chapter 16. The Color Of Privilege: Colorism In Popular Culture And Beyond.- Chapter 17. Response To Previous Chapter.