Akanksha Srivastava, PhD, is an experienced academician, writer, and editor with over 15 years of experience in the education industry. She is an Associate Professor with the School of Education, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. In addition to her work as an editor, she is also an accomplished author. Her research interests include the intersection of inclusion with a focus on women’s experiences, on which she has published extensively. As the editor of this volume, Dr. Srivastava brought together a diverse group of scholars to explore the various themes and topics related to the history of gender and sexuality in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the USA. Disha Maheshwari, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the School of Education at Sharda University, India. She was a Commonwealth Scholar at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, England. At Sharda University, she teaches courses on gender studies, communication, and research methodology in education (qualitative) at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and on pedagogy at PhD level. She has presented her research work around the world, including at Cambridge, Stockholm, Hong Kong, Warwick, Oslo (virtual), Tamil Nadu, Punjab, etc. Her areas of interest are gender and education, discourse and identity, and higher education pedagogy. Chitra Krishnan, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Behavioral Science at the Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies, Noida, India. She has a number of publications in acclaimed journals at the national and international levels and has also participated in many national and international conferences. She is passionate about writing and has seven books to her credit with international publishers. She has been a member of the review committees for conferences and journals. Her area of interest includes human resource management, organizational behavior, talent management, diversity management, employee satisfaction, knowledge management, artificial intelligence, and emotional intelligence.
""Refreshing to read as the chapters are analytically robust, lucid in style, maintain logical flow, and bring nuanced insights on a wide range of thematic areas. The overarching concern of this anthology is to examine two crucial areas of gendered realities: education and workforce. . . . [A] timely publication [that] gains great significance to identify the roots of hurdles and major challenges in approaching gender equality and finding solutions to them. . . . An important resource for policymakers, political and development practitioners, employers and educationists, and of course students, research scholars, and teachers."" —From the Foreword by Vibhuti Patel, Vice President, Indian Association for Women‘s Studies