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Failing at fairness : how America's schools cheat girls / Myra and David Sadker.

By: Sadker, Myra.
Contributor(s): Sadker, David Miller, 1942-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1994Description: xiv, 347 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0684195410 :.Subject(s): Sex discrimination in education -- United States | Sexism in education -- United States | Women -- Education -- United States | Sex discrimination | Sexism | Women -- United States -- EducationDDC classification: 370.19/345
Contents:
Hidden lessons -- Through the back door : the history of women's education -- Missing in interaction -- The self-esteem slide -- High school : in search of herself -- Test dive -- Higher education : colder by degrees -- The miseducation of boys -- Different voices, different schools -- The edge of change.
Summary: Examines how schools at every level fail girls and offers a solution to what must be done to serve children better.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-336) and index.

Hidden lessons -- Through the back door : the history of women's education -- Missing in interaction -- The self-esteem slide -- High school : in search of herself -- Test dive -- Higher education : colder by degrees -- The miseducation of boys -- Different voices, different schools -- The edge of change.

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Examines how schools at every level fail girls and offers a solution to what must be done to serve children better.

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