University College Dublin, Ireland

• 1. Gender Balance/Gender Bias: issues in education research Deirdre Raftery and Maryann Valiulis 2. Gender balance/gender bias: the teaching profession and the impact of feminisation Sheelagh Drudy 3. A 'marked success': physical activity at Miss White's School Linda C. Morice 4. African girls, nineteenth-century mission education and the patriarchal imperative Fiona Leach 5. Gender bias and imbalance: girls in US special education programmes Emily Arms, Jill Bickett and Victoria Graf 6. 'Twenty-four seven on the computers': girls, ICTs and risk Susanne Gannon 7. Hard bargaining on the hard drive: gender bias in the music technology classroom Victoria Armstrong 8. Exploring modes of communication among pupils in Brazil: gender issues in academic performance Adla B.M. Teixeira, Carlos E. Villani and Silvania S. do Nascimento 9. 'He was a bit of a delicate thing': white middle-class boys, gender, school choice and parental anxiety Katya Williams, Fiona Jamieson and Sumi Hollingworth