Barbara Bailey
Barbara Evelyn Bailey, Professor Emerita of The University of the West Indies held the position of University Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies from 1996 and up to her retirement in 2010. Professor Bailey’s teaching and research focus has been on Gender and Education Studies, with particular emphasis on the relationship of educational outputs to outcomes in the economic, social and political spheres for both genders. Her work in this area has made a distinctive contribution to educational practice and policy with her leadership of the Regional Gender Differentials Research project resulting in a policy framework developed in collaboration with the Caribbean Development Bank and adopted by CARICOM Ministers of Education at the 20th Meeting of the Council on Human and Social Development (COHSOD) in October, 2010. She has also published several related articles, including Gender and Education in Jamaica: What About the Boys? published in the UNESCO monograph series, Education for All in the Caribbean: Assessment 2000 and Gender and Political Economy in Caribbean Education Systems: An Agenda for Inclusion published in Commonwealth Partnerships 2009.
