TUULA GORDON is Professor in Women's Studies and Social Sciences in the Department of Women's Studies, University of Tampere. She obtained her sociology degree at London School of Economics and her doctorate at the University of London. She has also taught at the University of Helsinki. She is the author of Single Women: On the Margin, Feminist MothersEM and EMDemocracy in One School? Progressive Education and RestructuringEM, and co-editor of EMUnresolved Dilemmas: Women, Work and the Family in the United States, Europe and the Former Soviet UnionEM.
JANET HOLLAND is Professor of Social Research and Director of the Social Science Research Centre, South Bank University, London. She is co-author of EM The Male in the Head, and co-editor of EMSex, Sensibility and The Gendered Body, Sexual Cultures, Debates and Issues in Feminist Research and Pedagogy, andEM Identity and Diversity: Gender and the Experience of Education.
ELINA LAHELMA is Docent, Department of Education at the University of Helsinki. Currently she works as senior fellow at the Academy of Finland. She has written extensively on gender and education.