QuantCrit at the intersections: a systematic review of gender and sexuality in QuantCrit research

Abstract

The use of QuantCrit and other approaches to centering racism in quantitative educational research has rapidly expanded. While both QuantCrit and Critical Race Theory call for intersectional analyses that account for multiple systems of marginalization, such as racism, white supremacism, genderism, misogyny, trans-antagonism, and heterosexism, gender and sexuality have tended to be emphasized less often. As a result, our research questions concerned whether and how QuantCrit researchers took up gender and sexuality in their work. We found that most authors relied on large-scale datasets, which limited their ability to critically engage with these concepts. We further found that when authors engaged gender, they most often conflated gender and legal sex. We further found relatively few examples that considered sexuality at all. We offer recommendations for QuantCrit scholars to better account for gender and sexuality and the intersecting systems of oppression that overlap at LGBTQ+ social locations.