Short Summary: Gender gaps in education management, attributed to: (i) cultural norms and socialisation patterns, (ii) the ideology of patriarchy (iii) gender insensitive teacher education programmes and rules governing promotions and (iv) gender insensitive educational policies. The Gender Responsive Indicators toolkit (GEREDI) gives education planners, managers and researchers in Africa, a basic framework for assessing gender responsiveness in education management. Five components identify several steps and matrices to help the analysis and presentation of information. For example 'Drawing a balance sheet: contextualising the problem' outlines steps to help planners review national government's actions in the context of international and national agreements. The toolkit ends with several lessons that have been learned in Africa including: The key to successful interventions is an active, gender-responsive government and there should be a concerted effort to motivate women to take managerial positions in education. To order write to the Collaborative Centre for Gender and Development, P.O.Box 4869, Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: 254-2-537100/1, Fax: 254-2-537100, Email: ccgd@nbnet.co.ke.(Source: Summary adapted from summary by Annabelle Newbigging - gender and education consultant for DFID.)