How Schools Shortchange Girls

By American Association of University Women

Book Overview

This eye-opening study served as a wake-up call, exposing the systematic bias that girls face in education. While girls and boys enter school roughly equal in measured ability, by age fifteen girls have poor self-images and constrained views of their futures. In addition to a wealth of data, the report also suggests specific strategies to effect changes. This book catalyzed local, state, and national action, and today few conversations about gender and education in the academic and research communities neglect to mention this watershed report.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569248214
• ISBN13: 9781569248218
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

An important text for educators

The previously posted reviews for this book are belligerent and misleading. This book was published as a provocation to educators everywhere to examine the way educational insitutions tolerate and enable various practices that harm young women personally and educationally. It had that effect when it was published and can have that effect for new readers. Authors and reviewers who retort that "It is BOYS who are suffering, not girls" seem to believe that we cannot wish to serve both boys and girls better at the same time. How well boys are (or are not) doing is irrelevant to the fact that girls face a number of unnecessary hazards in our schools and culture. Among these are an epidemic of sexual harassment in secondary schools, near zero rates of femaile Ph.D.s in engineering and the physical sciences (other than biology), eating disorders, and blatant resistance at high schools and colleges to the Title IX law, just to name a few.