LITERACY MATERIALS FOR WOMEN SHOULD:

• show women's experiences from women's viewpoints and reflect the many different life experiences of women, including the experiences of women literacy students and women from minority groups;
  
  
• celebrate women's strengths, respect women's sense of dignity, value what women bring to society and encourage women to be proud of all of these;
  
  
• show women in a variety of jobs and roles, including those that may seem surprising or different for women because people are used to seeing men in these jobs, even though women can do them just as well;
  
  
• recognize that women have their own particular ways of knowing and their own ways of learning;
  
  
• support women's desire to learn and to educate themselves according to their own hopes and dreams;
  
  
• recognize that there are many levels of oppression for women and that society often treats women differently because of race, class, religion, age, education, physical abilities and sexual orientation;
  
  
• recognize that women do share common experiences because they are women, such as getting lower pay than men, being treated as less important than men, and being physically abused by men;
  
  
• make sure that women are not blamed when bad things happen to them because they are women;
  
  
• never discriminate against people because of their sex, race, class, religion, culture, ethnic origin, education, sexual orientation or (dis)abilities;
  
  
• be non-sexist, present a positive image of women and, preferably, reflect a feminist viewpoint;
  
  
• show, as clearly as possible, how they are developed so that women can understand the process of writing, producing and publishing materials;
  
  
• be easy to read, with words, layout, print, illustrations, format and binding that make them as easy as possible for all women to use;
  
  
• be written mostly by women, including women literacy students and women from minority groups.