May 14, 2010 20:32
14 yrs ago
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Gender Issues in Science Education: Empowering Girls and Women

English Other Education / Pedagogy Science Education
I need to decide the title of a workshop. My counterpart says that this phrasing is wrong and that "Gender Issues in Science Education: on Empowering Girls and Women" would be the correct form.
My opinion is that she would be correct is there was no ":", indicating a subtitle.
The idea is a workshop focused on science education. As a consequence we have the empowerment of girls and women.
What would be better?
Thanks in advance.

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Agree with this

The general topic of the workshop (gender) and the gender specifically under discussion (female).

You could certainly refer to the '"gender issues in science education" workshop on empowering girls and women'. But this is the title of the workshop, and a colon is correct here.


Peer comment(s):

agree Armorel Young : It would be perfectly OK to call the workshop "Empowering X and Y" - so it's equally OK to use it as a subtitle or elaboration of the title
11 mins
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agree Demi Ebrite
22 mins
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agree Jack Doughty
1 hr
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agree J Celeita (X)
2 hrs
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agree Marcelo González : The use of the colon is fine, as well as being quite common (in the context of titles, in general).
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agree English2Korean
9 hrs
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agree Alison Sabedoria (X)
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agree Rolf Keiser
11 hrs
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agree John Detre
18 hrs
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agree Arabic & More
23 hrs
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agree EN_Localiser
4 days
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