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    The document summarizes some key findings from the book "Failing at Fairness" about gender biases and inequities in American schools. It shows that boys receive more attention than girls in the classroom, while girls learn to be polite, help the teacher, and focus on appearance. Boys learn that being loud, active, and interested in sports defines masculinity. A study found that 42% of girls saw advantages to being boys, compared to only 5% of boys who saw benefits to being girls, with some boys expressing a desire to harm themselves to escape being female. Classes often struggled to name 20 important women in U.S. history.

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    The document summarizes some key findings from the book "Failing at Fairness" about gender biases and inequities in American schools. It shows that boys receive more attention than girls in the classroom, while girls learn to be polite, help the teacher, and focus on appearance. Boys learn that being loud, active, and interested in sports defines masculinity. A study found that 42% of girls saw advantages to being boys, compared to only 5% of boys who saw benefits to being girls, with some boys expressing a desire to harm themselves to escape being female. Classes often struggled to name 20 important women in U.S. history.

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    The document summarizes some key findings from the book "Failing at Fairness" about gender biases and inequities in American schools. It shows that boys receive more attention than girls in the classroom, while girls learn to be polite, help the teacher, and focus on appearance. Boys learn that being loud, active, and interested in sports defines masculinity. A study found that 42% of girls saw advantages to being boys, compared to only 5% of boys who saw benefits to being girls, with some boys expressing a desire to harm themselves to escape being female. Classes often struggled to name 20 important women in U.S. history.

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    The document summarizes some key findings from the book "Failing at Fairness" about gender biases and inequities in American schools. It shows that boys receive more attention than girls in the classroom, while girls learn to be polite, help the teacher, and focus on appearance. Boys learn that being loud, active, and interested in sports defines masculinity. A study found that 42% of girls saw advantages to being boys, compared to only 5% of boys who saw benefits to being girls, with some boys expressing a desire to harm themselves to escape being female. Classes often struggled to name 20 important women in U.S. history.

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    Failing at Fairness

    How America’s Schools Cheat Girls


    Myra & David Sadker
    Next Slide
    An Overview:
    History of women’s education

    Girls in elementary

    Young women in middle school

    Young women in high school

    Gender gaps in test scores

    Miseducation of boys

    Change question mark?


    Next Slide
    Boys receive more attention than girls
    in the classroom. Why?

    Next Slide
    Girls Learn:

    *keep quiet and be polite

    *help the teacher

    *their answers are not as important


    as how neat their margins are

    *their appearance is very important

    Next Slide
    Boys Learn:

    *The loudest voice gets heard

    *Be active and independent

    *Sports and masculinity are the


    same thing

    *They are the most important


    members of a classroom

    Next Slide
    Lesson learned.
    Next Slide
    Next Slide
    1100 Children were asked what their lives would
    be like as members of the opposite sex

    42% of girls found positive things to write about

    95% of boys saw no advantage to being a girl

    16% of the boys wrote about fantasy escapes from their


    female bodies: suicide

    “I would stab myself in the heart fifty times with a


    dull butter knife.” Next Slide
    no women in history
    Classes of Students Cannot List 20 Women of U.S. History. Can
    You?

    Next Slide
    PATENT
    Cotton Gin
    Revolutionary invention
    DATE CLIENT
    1794 ELI WHITNEY NEXT SLIDE
    PATENT
    Cotton Gin
    Revolutionary invention
    DATE CLIENT
    1794 CATHERINE “KITTY” GREENE FIRST SLIDE

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