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This chapter discusses gender equity issues in schools. Starting with teachers’ narratives of their struggles with gender borders when they were adolescents at school, this chapter further discusses the gender stereotypes that are still prevalent in primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong.
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Form 2 is grade 8 in the American system.
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Pattie, Yee, Y., Luk-Fong (2013). Struggling with Gender Borders: Implications for Gender Equity for the Next Generation. In: Teachers' Identities and Life Choices. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 19. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4021-81-4_9
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