Gender and Education : Hyperlink

There is much controversy today about gender and education. Do boys get more attention than girls in class? Do girls get called on to answer questions more than boys? or do teacher evenly submit their attention to both boys and girls? These questions are the first things that I think about when talking about gender and education.

I googled gender and education and found a really good website that talks about the differences that girls and boys go through in school and how teachers teach them to be treated differently and that woman are "unequal" to men. This startled me because why are woman unequal to men? There is no doubt in my mind that we are different than men because even woman are different from each other but that does not mean we can not do the same types of activities. In the article it says teachers, lessons teachers teach, and textbooks are all guilty of gender bias and focus their material on one gender rather than the other. I do not agree with doing this because the students will grow up thinking the wrong things about who we are as people. They will start to develop stereotypes for each other like the popular girls are the ones who are pretty and nice and have lots of friends or the jock boys are all the ones with huge muscles and can get the girls. If we start to develop stereotypes for these students at a young age than we might always have the problem of gender favoritism in schools. I think that teachers should be teaching the students we are equal and always treat us equally rather than favoring one gender over another.

Here is the article that I read....http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/genderbias.html

I also found this YouTube video that has to do with gender bias in young children's first books.