At the same time, Amy's flaws are textbook gender stereotypes, even comically so: She's manipulative, nagging, obnoxiously Type A, narcissistic and, ultimately, obsessed with getting back her beloved boy, to the extent that she even schemes a pregnancy to do it.
Ms. Zhang, who is a co-editor of a recently published university textbook titled "Gender and Law" (she believes it's the first of its kind in China), says so far only three universities are using it in their law departments.
Based on this information, when the trainers offered CFS training to teachers in the five pilot schools, they taught the teachers how to analyse the textbooks for gender bias.
Same-sex hand-holding days, "Vagina Monologues" performances, diversity training seminars, minority support groups, "no means no" dating rules, textbooks purified of gender, racial or class stereotypes -- for all their good intentions, these manifestations of enforced tolerance can create a stultifying air of conformity in college life.
This she does by swallowing her gender studies textbook and reconstituting it as a range of verbal bingo calls.
The biased construction of gender in anatomy textbooks designed for medical education provides future healthcare providers with inadequate and unrealistic information about patients.
The site also lists other resources such as books, textbooks, conferences featuring sex and gender content, continuing medical education activities, and a blog for news and discussion.
Gender inequality in schools manifests in many ways, including: an absence of security, particularly for girls, in commuting to school, school designs that lack separate latrines for girls and boys, gender bias in textbooks and teaching materials which often portray girls in domestic environments with limited skills, and stereotyping by teachers of gender roles in society.
Rush Limbaugh's use of "slut" and "prostitute" was a textbook example of how horrifically damning gender slurs are, and why such forms of abuse deserve swift and serious action.
Results indicate that the representation of gender in images from anatomy textbooks remain predominantly male except within sex-specific sections.
School curricula, instructional materials especially textbooks, should be examined and revised whenever gender biases are present.
