ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we reflect on our experiences of witnessing and experiencing the discriminatory and inequitable treatment of girls and women in educational and broader social contexts in diverse countries, which include India, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Canada. We begin the chapter by sharing some of our own lived experiences of confronting gender disparity and sexual misconduct in academic and broader societal spaces as sisters who grew up and studied in India. We then share some difficult moments and ethical dilemmas that we face(d) as academicians who are currently involved in teaching at the university level in Canada and India as we continue our efforts to listen to and respond to the stories of students and colleagues who are/have been experiencing and witnessing sexual misconduct and inequitable gender(ed) treatment. We conclude the chapter by sharing a (trans-multi)culturally responsive education framework that may help us in creating inclusive, socially just, responsive education spaces by initiating complicated conversations to interrogate the inequities inherent in gender(ed) identities and social roles that often “normalise” sexual misconduct in many socio-cultural contexts.
