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A 9 page research paper that examines issues of gender as they pertain to education. The writer examines the assertions that girls are being shortchanged and also similar assertions that boys are being shortchanged; the issue of sex-segregated classrooms; and research on learning. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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ascetic philosophy Tertulian summed up the misogynist attitude of previous ages when he described womens essential nature as being a "temple built over a sewer" (Gilbert and Gubar, 1996, p.
5). Considering the extent of patriarchal misogynist attitudes, it is probably not surprising that as late as the eighteenth century, the topic of female education was still controversial. This is
evidenced by the fact that Mary Wollstonecraft, an early and eloquent proponent of education for women, founded her argument in favor of female education in her work A Vindication of
the Rights of Women on the premise that knowledge would better prepare girls for their roles as wives and mothers (1996). Even as radical a feminist (for her day)
as Wollstonecraft dared not propose educational equality simply as a matter of justice or in deviance of the socially accepted gender stereotype, which defined the lives of women at that
time. However, today, presumably, such prejudice has gone the way of the dinosaur and ours is a new and enlightened age--or is it? The following investigation examines the state of
equality between male and female education, attempting to answer such questions as whether or not girls have caught up with boys in science and math and, if they have not,
what should be done. Wollstonecraft argued persuasively in favor of co-educational classrooms, yet some proponents of equality in education are now proposing that segregated classrooms are the answer. Whittier Middle
School is one of nine public middle schools in San Antonio, Texas that is offering students the option of single-gender classrooms (Satter, 2004). While both sexes attend Whittier and all
seventh and eighth grade students are in co-ed classes, only one sixth grade class is co-educational (Satter, 2004). One 11-year-old girl commented on the change saying that "Boys want to
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