SOCC38H3 Lecture 3: Week 3 Lecture
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In first grade, boys and girls sit next to each other. 6 times more male biographies than female biographies. 11 times more books were male award winning books than female. In recent research, it shows that men still continue to dominate pages of school books, continue to be very active, brave, athletic, achieving: girls are portrayed as fearful, docile, passive in books. In recent study of elementary schools only 12% of characters were females learning math with computer software. In terms of activity, boys are more shown as adventurers, girls are passive: these kinds of gender stereotypes contribute negatively to children development. Patents men, was illegal for women to hold a patent, men were primarily inventing things. In language and art books males outnumber women 2 to 1 in those books. In children"s fiction and illustration there are twice as many males than females www. notesolution. com: can limit career aspirations, turn off boys to being teachers or nurses.
