We return this month with our series which recaps our favorite (or least favorite) moments in gender equity from news, media, and longreads all over the internet. You’ll see installments for This Month in Gender Equity the fourth week of each month. If you have ideas or contributions, leave a comment or tweet at us! We’d love to know what you’re reading and learning.
Read MoreCheck back here for twice-monthly updates from AEC! We will provide you with content about current events, tips and resources, and new strategies to try in your districts, schools, and classrooms. To view ongoing and past blog series, click on the links below.
Amy offers a wrap-up of some of the most infuriating and awesome news of the month in her Rants and Raves for February. This week, she takes on arresting an 11-year-old, a bill that would lead to trans-related censorship in South Dakota schools, and the number of women in the race for the 2020 nomination.
Read MoreThis week, we welcome guest author Dawn Czaja. Dawn is an elementary teacher in Boston. Before you call her a superhero, read what she has to say about the toxicity of that idea.
Read MoreGender inequities are not limited to the experiences of women who teach or lead in education – as we’ve documented here, students also bear the brunt in inequitable practices in schools, districts, and educational organizations. Importantly, inequity is not limited to different treatment of the genders, but instead extends to the range of identities a person might represent (see our brief introduction to intersectionality). Yet we know that gender bias manifests in classrooms in a couple of ways: girls may be called on less frequently than boys, be assigned to lead groups less frequently than boys, girls who evince more traditionally masculine characteristics may be subject to school-based consequences, and students who identify as nonbinary or trans may be erased or persecuted.
Read MoreThis month, we launch a series which recaps our favorite moments in gender equity from news, media, and longreads all over the internet. You’ll see installments for This Month in Gender Equity the fourth week of each month. If you have ideas or contributions, leave a comment or tweet at us! We’d love to know what you’re reading and learning.
Read MoreHappy 2019, readers! I hope that your new year is off to a great start! I’m back to rant, as usual, about something that is making me crazy this week. I’m not usually the type who gets emotional about advertisements. I don’t have cable and so I rarely see TV ads, so unless something goes viral, it is likely that I haven’t seen it. So when a trusted friend told me last week that I should really check out the new Gillette commercial, I had no idea what to expect.
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