SEXISM IN EDUCATION - GRETA DOUCET

Greta Doucet is a researcher and sociologist who is currently co-ordinator of personnel education at Moncton City Hospital. She has a background in home economics, health care and insurance, and in 1978 co-ordinated a conference organized to study the needs and problems of women in new Brunswick.

This workshop involved participants in a role play of a meeting between a local school board and prominent community members in order to discuss the need for "de-segregating" home economics and industrial arts courses so that boys and girls would take either or both. (This kind of role play is based on a model, The Movers Game, which has been developed in the United States.)

Following the role play, workshop participants analyzed the themes which had been illustrated. Teachers, students and the business community all have vested interests in preserving the "status quo". Socialized roles are also very deeply embedded.

Strategies for change must involve professionals, parents, students, communities.


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