Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sex Versus Ses: A Declining Significance of Gender for Schooling In Sub-Saharan Africa? / Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue, Fouad Makki and Sarah C. Giroux -- Pedagogy of Difference: Understanding Teachers' Beliefs and Practice of Gender Equity In Benin / Sonya Anderson -- Learning From Experience: Improving Equality of Access and Outcomes for Girls In Uganda's Universal Post-Primary Education and Training Initiative / Jill Sperandio and Alice Kagoda -- Sugar Daddies and the Danger of Sugar: Cross-Generational Relationships, HIV/AIDs, and Secondary Schooling In Zambia / Monisha Bajaj -- Limits of and Possibilities for Equality: An Analysis of Discourse and Practices of Gendered Relations, Ethnic Traditions, and Poverty Among Non-Majority Ethnic Girls In Vietnam / Joan DeJaeghere and Shirley J. Miske -- What Matters for Chinese Girls' Behavior and Performance In School: An Investigation of Co-Educational and Single-Sex Schooling for Girls In Urban China / Julia Kaufman and Liqun Yin -- Gender Gap and Women's Participation In Higher Education: Views From Japan, Mongolia, and India / Yoshiko Nozaki, Rima Aranha, Rachel Fix Dominguez and Yuri Nakajima -- Re-Gendered Education and Society In the Newly Independent States (NIS) of Central Asia / Alan J. DeYoung and Elizabeth A. Constantine -- Issues of Gender, Equality, Education, and National Development In the United Arab Emirates / Daniel Kirk and Diane Napier -- Gender Segregation In Student Career Aspirations In Norwegian Secondary Schools / Lihong Huang -- Gender Differences In Political Efficacy and Attitudes Toward Women's Rights As Influenced By National and School Contexts: Analysis From the IEA Civic Education Study / Carolyn Barber and Judith Torney-Purta -- Shifting Gender Effects: Opportunity Structures, Institutionalized Mass Schooling, and Cross-National Achievement In Mathematics / Alexander W. Wiseman, David P. Baker, Catherine Riegle-Crumb and Francisco O. Ramirez.