When reading the documentation I felt the injustice. A real sense of injustice. Something that I see over and over again. My father was a German Jew. When I would say, "Things aren't fair, he would ask "Who said things should be fair?"

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The mouth represents a woman telling another woman how she feels. The square is the house. . . the box she doesn't know how to get out of. There is a cloud over it. The green hand is reaching out to other women. The yellow is the little ray of sunshine.

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The women decided to focus on the players the represent-the very visible players and those that are not so visible. Who are they? Why are they doing what they are doing? Whose interests are being met? They chose a figure to draw in more detail, then they wrote statements.

Several women focused on motherhood. So many mothers risk losing their children because they cannot provide food or shelter, because they cannot get jobs. How can they concentrate on learning? Programs cannot even offer childcare.

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I drew several children...Different children with different needs. Primarily, women meet those needs in our society. It affects a woman's learning. All her choices are affected by this.

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