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Ultimately feminist education should pose the following questions to be asked by all women: By whose standards am I being judged and do I agree with them? In whose interest does this work? If the answer is that I am working to support those interests which oppress me, what am I doing there? How should I change? What are my choices and strategies and where can I find support?

Men's studies in Curriculum

Finally, while women should participate in the fruits of feminist research and pedagogy, vocational programs aimed at training women for non-traditional work must tackle the most difficult project of all: changing men's attitudes. That is why a component of "men's studies" in the curriculum is essential. While all mainstream education is predicated on men's world picture these are ingenuously presented as "reality." Both women and men must study male culture and men as men. Males may be enlightened about some of their motivations and the danger of the system in which they are implicated. Women will be reminded that no one owns validity. Men can be helped to look at their intramale behaviour and how it excludes their female coworkers. Women can assess their participate in the system, what can justly be expected of them and their male colleagues, and how best to create a fair and congenial work place together.

A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY

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