Re: Atlantic Monthly: Girls Rule

From: edequity@phoenix.edc.org
Date: Mon May 08 2000 - 10:55:55 EDT


My initial reaction is that she nowhere mentions the white male
dominated curriciulum that gives girls no role models. Neither does
she mention the imbalance in money and pwer in the world between
grown-up boys and grown-up girls. I guess boys get straightened out
somewhere along the line!

Ellen Silber
<wominst@mmc.marymt.edu>

In reply to:
> I look forward to hearing reactions to the Atlantic Monthly article in
the
> May issue: Girls Rule! Mythmakers to the Contrary It's Boys Who Are In
> Deep Trouble by Chritina Hoff Sommers of the American Enterprise
Institute. The
> article attacks Carol Gilligan's work, the Sadker's work, and AAUW's
> studies.
>
> Jody Smothers Marcello
> Sitka, Alaska



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