The Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies is pleased to invite you to Gender and Education: A Panel Discussion and Course Development Workshop
Thursday, October 12 , 5:30 - 8:00 PM at the Stata Center, MIT
This workshop will address enduring debates about gender and education. Panelists from different disciplinary perspectives will share their research, teaching experiences and thoughts on the topics of access, equity, empowerment, and the gendered construction of knowledge. In light of the resurgent concern about a "gender gap," focused on the underachievement of boys, panelists will consider what various feminist perspectives might have to offer this debate.
The panel discussion will include presentations by Helen Haste, Professor of Psychology at the University of Bath, England; Lorna Rivera, Assistant Professor of Community Planning and Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston; and Kathleen Weiler, Professor of Education at Tufts University; and will be moderated by Wendy Luttrell, Aronson Associate
Professor in Human Development and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Go, JJ, go! I'm sure you'll find it very illuminating.
Some real research here.
In an anonymous survey, 720 adults who were attending public street fairs in the San Francisco area were asked their gender, age, sexual orientation, handedness, and the number and gender of children their mother had carried before them.
A totally representative sample, huh?
I know some of these "gender" studies can be interesting. For example, there's a pretty good book about women on the late-19th century northern Plains, and it documents the frontier woman's struggle to keep the cloths of their children and husband clean, to keep them fed, and so on.
The other side of "gender" studies -- and this is what is more typical -- is the Slice off the Penis variety. Maybe JJ could find an empowered girlfriend at one of these events? Be careful JJ.
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