Pedestal: A Women's Liberation Newspaper
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is part of: Pedestal
issued: 2016-11-10
issued: 1972-04
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extent: 16 pages
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note: m WOfAEIM'S LIBERATION NEINSIWEF VANCOUVER, b.C VOLUMEIVnoA APRIL 1972 &&P PUNIC SU/MV1E ^ IS PUBLIC SW/MME ■>Kl%/#flTECUllT I ' page^tWo-^-pedestal—april "72 -f Women in Teaching is an organization dedicated to ending the secondary and supportive roles of women in society, and to changing our school system, which WIT says channels students into roles and relegates female teachers to secondary positions, this article, submitted by WIT, analyzes how some of our elementary school textbooks condition girls for second class citizenship. There was a little girl Who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead.' And when she was good I She was very very good . And when she was bad . She was horrid. And so is the educational system that propagates the sex-role imagery hinted at in this nursery rhyme. For it is formal education that reinforces the sex- role differentiation established in early childhood. If we assume that, by about the age of two, children are able to distinguish between male and female roles, then by the time a girl begins school she has a relatively clear idea of what is considered feminine. She also knows what kind of behaviour is expected of her as a 'girl'. She is generally encouraged to be quiet, genteel, coy, motherly and to have a score of other equally nebulous and passive traits considered 'feminine'. Instead of reinforcing such indifferent traits, parents and educators sh6uld be urged or even pressed to realize the importance or expanding the horizons of their daughters and students, and to respect their aspirations and encourage their initiative. Society must begin to develop a sensitivity to the individuality of girls as well as boys. Betty Friedan says, 'It (sex-directed education) must have been going on for ten or fifteen years before anyone suspected it.' Gradually it became and still is apparent that, although more girls were going to university, fewer were going on to become physicists, phiososphers, poets, doctors, lawyers, stat…
note: Vol. 4, no. 4; April 1972
has type: Newspapers
spatial: British Columbia
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0340834
language: English
provider: Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : Vancouver Women's Caucus
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source: Original Format: Simon Fraser University. Archives and Records Management
subject: Women's rights--Periodicals
subject: Feminism--Periodicals
type: Text