Written by Dr. Caroline Manion

Dr. Caroline (Carly) Manion is an adjunct professor at OISE, University of Toronto in the Comparative, International and Development Education (CIDE) collaborative degree program. With over 15 years of research and teaching experience in the broad area of gender and education, Caroline has examined the scope and nature of gender-based inequalities in education, their connections with social, economic and political processes, and a variety of policy responses in North American and African school systems and classrooms. Caroline currently serves as co-chair of the Comparative and International Education Society’s Gender and Education Committee as well as the CIDE representative for the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative’s Global Advisory Committee.