Improving Educational Gender Equality in Religious Societies Human Rights and Modernization Pre-Arab Spring /

• Main Author: Al-Kohlani, Sumaia A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Church and education.; International education .; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Religion and Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.

In this book, Al-Kohlani examines fifty-five Muslim and non-Muslim countries from 1960 to 2010 in response to "religious theory" that associates certain religions with gender inequality and "modernization theory" which downplays the role of religion on gender inequity and associa...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Religious Theory vs. Modernization Theory
• Chapter 3. Research Design and Methodology
• Chapter 4. Empirical Testing and Analysis of Data
• Chapter 5. Case Study
• Chapter 6. Conclusion and Policy Implications.