Gender Equity
Are male students and female student’s receiving the same opportunities when it
comes to Math and Science in the schools? I don’t believe they are. This is why
gender equity is a major problem facing our schools today. Many girls are
having very negative attitudes towards Math and Science. Through doing
research on this topic I found out why.
In the article How Research Helps Address Gender Equity, a very
shocking and eye opening thing was written. I learned that children as young as
kindergarten already have formed set stereotypes about Science and Math. The
boys in the class wanted to and believed that they could be Scientist while the
girls in the class did not. They perceived being a Scientist as a mans job. As
children get older and move up in their grades things don’t seem to be getting
any better, only worse.
A three year study was done in fourth, sixth, and eighth grade classrooms
in four states and they discovered that teachers actually call on and give more
feedback to boys. The teachers answer to this study was that boys were more
demanding and they called out more then girls. However it was found that if girls
act this way they were penalized for it (Sadker D, Sadker M, and Stulber L,
1993). Teachers also challenge boys if they give the wrong answer, and if girls
give the wrong answer they are more apt to call on another person. I was
surprised by this research because I hadn’t actually noticed these things
occurring while I was in school, but now that I look back at it I realize that it did.
As I got into course three Math, a lot of girls had dropped out including myself.
One of the major reasons I dropped out was the fact that my Math t...
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...on since I will be
going into teaching shortly. I know that it will be my job as a teacher to promote
equality in my classroom.
Works Cited
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Baker Dale(2001). Teaching for Gender Difference. Retrieved from the World Wide Web
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Beyond Title IX:Gender Equity Issues in School (2001). Retrieved from the World Wide
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Damnjanovic, A., & Kahle, J. (1997) How Research Helps Address Gender Equity.
Retrieved from the World Wide Web on March 18, 2001: http://narst.org/research/gender2.htm.
Sadker, D., Sadker, M., & Stulberg, L (1993). Fair and Square. Instructor
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