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Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children

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More garbage from the people who claimed there was a "crisis" in education for girls when in fact female standards of behavior and learning enforced by women teachers and administrators were damaging our boys. The AAUW has no shame or honesty.

I am in an education class and chose to do a report on the book, Gender Gaps. This book is full of eye opening information that should be interesting to everyone in the education feild. It has been very well reseached and contains alot of surprizing figures about the difference in education recieved by boys versus girls. Although the many facts and figures make this book somewhat of a difficult and dry read, the information and helpful suggestions more than make the book worth the reader's time.

Overall, We believe that the book is very informative and could be helpful for those going into the education field. But it is difficult to sit and read the whole thing through because it is a report and is therefore just facts and recommendations. We do believe that it would be beneficial for future educators to read it so they might know what's going on out there and how to help make things better.

I am a college student majoring in education and had to read this for a class. This book held much information of which I was totally oblivious. It has served as a great source of new knowledge for me not only as a future educator, but also as the mother of two daughters. Having graduated from high school in 1987, I can remember clearly that there were many gender stereotypes used in textbooks, classroom discussions, and peer interactions. I do believe progress has been made and as educators we must make a conscious decision to make even more improvements towards obtaining gender equity in education. I found this book easy to follow, and being someone who isn't an avid reader, it has struck a desire within me to read additional education geared literature. Most of all, it has given me a sense of the importance of gender equity for all students and I will be a better educator because of having read this book.

This book was a very researched and accurate book, but I did feel like there were some biased issues. If you need to research for a paper on gender inequity, this is definitely what you will need, but I did not find it a very good book to leisurly read. I was somewhat dissapointed because it stated the same thing over and over again. It kept showing charts of girls and boys tests results and classes they took. This was too repetitive and it did not even tell why or if boys and girls taking these classes really made a significant difference. It was required for an education class I took and now I wish I would have read another book instead of this one because I really did not enjoy it whatsoever.

This book was very informational and well researched. It had a lot of research and statistics to support it's claims. I enjoyed reading it because I recently debated some male and female gender issues with a friend that this book supports: such as stereotypes on career influence. I have not experience much of these gaps, maybe due to the time in which I attended school. Much of these gaps obviously had been pretty much filed. However I agree that they exist, and for some its okay. Some things need changing and some are fine left alone.