The Gender Trap: Education and work
Author | : Carol Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Sex discrimination in education |
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Author | : Carol Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Sex discrimination in education |
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Author | : Carol Adams |
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Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Sex discrimination in education |
ISBN | : 9780704338012 |
Author | : Emily W. Kane |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2012-08-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814771440 |
A detailed account of how gender is learned and unlearned in the home From the selection of toys, clothes, and activities to styles of play and emotional expression, the family is ground zero for where children learn about gender. Despite recent awareness that girls are not too fragile to play sports and that boys can benefit from learning to cook, we still find ourselves surrounded by limited gender expectations and persistent gender inequalities. Through the lively and engaging stories of parents from a wide range of backgrounds, The Gender Trap provides a detailed account of how today’s parents understand, enforce, and resist the gendering of their children. Emily Kane shows how most parents make efforts to loosen gendered constraints for their children, while also engaging in a variety of behaviors that reproduce traditionally gendered childhoods, ultimately arguing that conventional gender expectations are deeply entrenched and that there is great tension in attempting to undo them while letting 'boys be boys' and 'girls be girls.'
Author | : Carol Adams. |
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Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Carol Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Sex role |
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Author | : Cristina Viviana Groeger |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2021-03-09 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0674259157 |
Why—contrary to much expert and popular opinion—more education may not be the answer to skyrocketing inequality. For generations, Americans have looked to education as the solution to economic disadvantage. Yet, although more people are earning degrees, the gap between rich and poor is widening. Cristina Groeger delves into the history of this seeming contradiction, explaining how education came to be seen as a panacea even as it paved the way for deepening inequality. The Education Trap returns to the first decades of the twentieth century, when Americans were grappling with the unprecedented inequities of the Gilded Age. Groeger’s test case is the city of Boston, which spent heavily on public schools. She examines how workplaces came to depend on an army of white-collar staff, largely women and second-generation immigrants, trained in secondary schools. But Groeger finds that the shift to more educated labor had negative consequences—both intended and unintended—for many workers. Employers supported training in schools in order to undermine the influence of craft unions, and so shift workplace power toward management. And advanced educational credentials became a means of controlling access to high-paying professional and business jobs, concentrating power and wealth. Formal education thus became a central force in maintaining inequality. The idea that more education should be the primary means of reducing inequality may be appealing to politicians and voters, but Groeger warns that it may be a dangerous policy trap. If we want a more equitable society, we should not just prescribe more time in the classroom, but fight for justice in the workplace.
Author | : Carol Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Sex discrimination in education |
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Author | : Carol Adams |
Publisher | : Virago Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
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Author | : Carol Adams |
Publisher | : Academy Chicago Pub |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 1977-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780915864096 |
Investigates the effects of feminine and masculine gender
Author | : Miriam E. David |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2017-05-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1509504281 |
The idea that gender equality in education has been achieved is now a staple of public debate. As a result, educational policies and practices often do not deal explicitly with gender issues, such as sexual abuse, harassment or violence. Exaggeration of neoliberalism’s successes in creating individual opportunity in education conceals ongoing problems and ignores the continuing need for a fair and equal education for all, regardless of gender or sexuality. In this manifesto for education, Miriam David rejects the notion that gender equality has been achieved in our age of neoliberalism. She puts the focus back onto issues such as changing patterns of women’s and girls’ participation in education across the globe, feminist strategies for policy and legal interventions around human rights, and violence against women and children. She discusses waves of feminism linked to school-teaching and pedagogies in higher education as well as an illuminating case study of an international educational programme to challenge gender-related violence. Revealing neoliberal education to be ‘misogyny masquerading as metrics’, Miriam David argues for changes in the patriarchal rules of the game, including questioning ‘gender norms’ and stereotypical binaries, and for making personal, social, health and sexuality education mainstream.