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Education to Eliminate Gender Bias
Advancing
Women believes education, starting at an early age, must be a major force
in eliminating gender bias.
The Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, a pioneer in the gender
equity research field is celebrating its 21st year. Susan McGee Bailey,
Executive Director of the Center, was project director for the new "Translation
of How Schools Shortchange Women", funded by the Ford Foundation
Educational Foundation, the original of which was funded by the AAUW American
Association for University Women. These translations in Spanish, French
and Chinese were presented at the United Nation's Fourth World Conference
on Women in Bejing, China in September, 1995, and are being distributed
free of charge in China and in Latin Am erican and Africa.
Teacher
Education Equity Project at the City University of New York Graduate Center,
Jo Sanders , Director, espouses changing the way educators are taught
in order to bring about less gender bias in future students. Under attack
are those drawings we all remember from childhood books where the doctor
was a man and the nurse a women.
The National Science Foundation is providing support and grants
for dozens of projects designed to eliminate gender bias.
