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A 5 page summation and analysis of Myra and David Sadker's book Failing at Fairness, which asserts that while girls and boys sit in the same classrooms, read the same texts, and listen to the same teacher, they receive very different educations. The paper first explores how gender bias is demonstrated in the classroom, and then how it can be corrected. No additional sources cited.
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texts, and listen to the same teacher, they receive very different educations (!1). They argue that from "grade school through graduate school," female students are "invisible" as members of the
classroom (1). The difference consists largely of the way that teachers interact with students. The authors have observed that teacher interact with male students more frequently with females, ask them
better questions and tend to give them more precise and helpful feedback (1). Due to the societal preference for males and male accomplishment, girls tend to suffer from a
loss of self-esteem, which causes a subsequent decline in their achievement, eliminating career options. Teachers have to take an active role in eliminating these inequalities because until "educational sexism is
eradicated, more than half our children will be short changed and their gifts lost to society" (1). The ways that sexual bias is demonstrated is the classroom are subtle,
yet, also obvious once they have been pointed out. For example, the authors picture two seco!nd grade students enthralled with the contents of a "math box"?wooden blocks, colored balls and
counting sticks. The harried teacher over them and says, "Ann! Julia! Get your cotton-pickin hands out of the math box. Move over so the boys can get in there
and do their work" (2). The authors ask the reader to imagine how discriminatory it might seem if the teacher had said the same thing about two African American boys
moving over so white males could "do their work" in order to appreciate the full significance of this action. By rectifying gender and sexual orientation bias, everyone benefits?male and
female, gay and straight?because it liberates people to be who they are instead of feeling that they have to live up or down to societal stereotypes. The authors demonstrate this
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