Failing at Fairness How Our Schools Cheat Girls

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Failing at FairnessHow Our Schools Cheat Girls

• By Myra and David Sadker

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Teacher Awareness in the Classroom

• Boys are allotted more time to answer questions
• Interact with males more frequently (spoon feed
  them the answers while expect girls to know it)
• Boys receive more praise
• Boys over power girls voices they in terms of
  loudness quicker to call out
• Teachers expect girls to always know the answer
  quickly be involved in discussion
• Girls are expected to follow the rules
• Teachers give girls more responsibility
• Girls receive compliments on their attire
• Boys and girls are often seperated

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Myths

• If women were educated they would not menstruate
  and could no longer produce male children.
• Feared the loss of romance arguing that if men
  women learned together the mysterious attraction
  between the sexes would evaporate.
• At recess girls are given jump ropes and boys are
  given kick balls. What if a girl wants a kick
  ball? (Bigger playground area)
• Women cannot risk their health by learning math,
  science philosophy because they have no use for
  it.
• Girls are smaller, weaker, slower, and not good
  in sports.

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History Timeline of Women in College

• 1950s women would attend college to meet their
  husbands.
• A form of finishing school.
• 1960s an official womens rule book was
  distributed limiting them to the types of
  activities, men could freely do.
• 1970s rule book discarded completely.
• Sexist comments were starting to be experienced
  and 68 of women received unwanted attention from
  men.
• 1980s sororities and fraternities were formed
  more emphasis was placed on fraternities.

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Self-Esteem

• Boys are content with who they are while girls
  are not. (This is at time of puberty)
• One important retain their self-esteem is because
  they are good at a lot of things.
• Self-esteem higher in males because of more
  confidence in their athletic ability.
• Girls do not think adults them to be able to do
  things because throughout school they are
  interrupted in attempts to accomplish things on
  their own.
• Girls are more worried about social success and
  boys look to males to receive approval.

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What do you think?

• What is gender inequality?
• What experiences have you dealt with that have
  involved gender inequality?
• What are your views on gender inequality after
  the presentation?