ABSTRACT
In 2008 the American Association of University Women (AAUW) published its long-awaited report, “Where the girls are: The facts about gender equity in education” (Corbett et al., 2008). The report addressed the results of studies done in conjunction with a research agenda that had been established in the organization’s 1992 landmark study, “The AAUW Report: How schools shortchange girls.” The earlier report had sparked a national debate on gender equity in education, and the more recent publication presented updated, empirical analyses on a range of inter-related topics, including “school climate and sexual harassment, girls in science and technology, race and gender on campus” (p. xi). Although the recent report identified a number of obstacles that girls still face in the educational system, it also documented the ways that many of the research-based policy recommendations had been implemented over the years and the educational achievement of girls and women facilitated as a result.
