Over the last two to three decades there has been heightened awareness on the part of educators and policy makers of the ways in which schooling, through a range of structures and processes, reproduces and reinforces a hierarchical gender order both in schools and in the wider social system. As a result, there has been a burgeoning indigenous discourse which examines gender bias and sex discrimination at all levels of Caribbean education systems. This special issue of the Caribbean Journal of Education on Gender and Education is a further contribution to this project.