Women and Schooling in the Third World: A Bibliography

Abstract

histories of specific institutions or descriptive summaries on the amount of education women and girls received. That literature, as this bibliography underscores, was relatively small and lacking in analytic perspective. In the last decade studies of women's schooling in Western societies, especially the United States, have proliferated. There is now a substantial research literature on access to education, the formal and hidden curriculum of the schools, counseling practices, educational outcomes, and the relationship between education and women's roles in society and family life. Research on sex differentiation in education and its outcomes in the World, however, remains far less extensive. This bibliography reflects not only the newness of the study of women's education as a scholarly endeavor but also the relative paucity of research on the topic. In compiling the bibliography we were faced with some difficult choices about what to include. We decided to focus exclusively on women's education in the World. We defined the Third World in