WGST 1F90 Lecture : WISE - March 5 2012 notes.docx
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Education: sites of possibility or places if inequality. Eliminate words: it, there are / there were, were, society: titles of articles, texts, film names, etc. in response paper. 1)process of sifting and sorting of students: workforce vs. higher education. Boys would have been pulled from schooling to help fathers with their farms. 1990s, women accounted for only 22 percent of elementary and secondary school administrators: in 2003, about (26%) of 19-year old men had attended uni. It can range from feeling unwelcome in a classroom setting, to sexual harassment, to other small micro inequities. Examples of micro inequities: asking women easier, more factual questions, men the harder, open- ended ones that require critical thinking. 2. calling males men and women girls or gals : judging women students by physical appearance and downgrading those who aren t attractive , describing women by their physical characteristics - blonde.