ANITA HILL IS A BOY

Tales from a Gender – Fair Classroom
Peggy Orenstein

The author argues that gender equity activities need to be included in schools’ curriculum. This can teach students we all are human and deserve the same respect no matter is we are men or women.

• “Women are one-half of the world’s people; they do two-thirds of the world’s work; they earn one-tenth of the world’s income; they own one one-hundredth of the world’s property.”

I love this quote. All it says is true. We women do most of the work, starting from home-work. Most of us have to work and also take care of the kids and the house. But we don’t get pay as well as men. We are considered we don’t qualify for certain jobs but we do can bring men to this world.

• “It disturbed me that although girls were willing to see men as heroes, none of the boys would see women that way.”

This is so true; men don’t want to recognize we women sometimes can be equally or better than them is some aspects. Some just don’t recognize it because they think that by doing so they can lose their “power – position”.

• “The boys definitely resent it, … . “They think Ms. Logan is sexist. But you know what I think? I think that it’s the resentment of losing their place. In our other classes, the teachers just focus on men, but the boys don’t complain that that’s sexist. They say, ‘It’s different in those classes because we’re focusing on the important people in history, who just happen to ne men.’ ”
Sometimes I think most men are so ignorant. How can the even think the most important people in history were men. Did they forget about those women who fought not only for women’s rights but for men’s rights too, for instance, Rosa Parks? Or did they forget about the woman who brought them to this world who happens to be a hero in their own history just for carrying them inside her belly for nine months and then take care of them until they were around 20 years old?

This has been one the best papers I’ve read in this class. It’s not because I’m a women but because it says the true. I hope teachers like Ms. Logan keep teaching kind of thing to students so one they this world change.