Nelly P. Stromquist is professor of education and an affiliated scholar in the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and is past president of the Comparative and International Education Society. Regina Cortina is a faculty member and researcher in the School of Education at New York University.

• Introduction; I: Gender Equity in Education Policy; Public Policies on Gender and Education in Paraguay; Gender Equity in Bolivian Educational Policies; Public Policy and Adult Education for Women in Brazil; II: Nongovernmental Organizations and the Education of Adult Women; Learning for the Construction of a Feminist Agenda within Organizations in Civil Society; Other Ways to Be Teachers, Mothers, and Fathers; Educating about Gender; Leadership Training; From the Local to the Global and the Global to the Local; III: International Development Agencies and Gender Equity in Education for Women and Girls in Latin America; Global Priorities and Local Predicaments in Education; UNESCO and the Education of Girls and Women in Latin America and the Caribbean; Restructuring Bilateral Aid for the Twenty-First Century; USAID Efforts to Expand and Improve Girls’ Primary Education in Guatemala; Ambiguities in Compensatory Policies; Conclusions

Nelly P. Stromquist is professor of education and an affiliated scholar in the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and is past president of the Comparative and International Education Society. Regina Cortina is a faculty member and researcher in the School of Education at New York University.

• Introduction; I: Gender Equity in Education Policy; Public Policies on Gender and Education in Paraguay; Gender Equity in Bolivian Educational Policies; Public Policy and Adult Education for Women in Brazil; II: Nongovernmental Organizations and the Education of Adult Women; Learning for the Construction of a Feminist Agenda within Organizations in Civil Society; Other Ways to Be Teachers, Mothers, and Fathers; Educating about Gender; Leadership Training; From the Local to the Global and the Global to the Local; III: International Development Agencies and Gender Equity in Education for Women and Girls in Latin America; Global Priorities and Local Predicaments in Education; UNESCO and the Education of Girls and Women in Latin America and the Caribbean; Restructuring Bilateral Aid for the Twenty-First Century; USAID Efforts to Expand and Improve Girls’ Primary Education in Guatemala; Ambiguities in Compensatory Policies; Conclusions

Nelly P. Stromquist is professor of education and an affiliated scholar in the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and is past president of the Comparative and International Education Society. Regina Cortina is a faculty member and researcher in the School of Education at New York University.

• Introduction; I: Gender Equity in Education Policy; Public Policies on Gender and Education in Paraguay; Gender Equity in Bolivian Educational Policies; Public Policy and Adult Education for Women in Brazil; II: Nongovernmental Organizations and the Education of Adult Women; Learning for the Construction of a Feminist Agenda within Organizations in Civil Society; Other Ways to Be Teachers, Mothers, and Fathers; Educating about Gender; Leadership Training; From the Local to the Global and the Global to the Local; III: International Development Agencies and Gender Equity in Education for Women and Girls in Latin America; Global Priorities and Local Predicaments in Education; UNESCO and the Education of Girls and Women in Latin America and the Caribbean; Restructuring Bilateral Aid for the Twenty-First Century; USAID Efforts to Expand and Improve Girls’ Primary Education in Guatemala; Ambiguities in Compensatory Policies; Conclusions