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From: daveb@geac (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: Re: Countering discrimination your children will face
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Date: 5 Aug 88 13:24:07 GMT
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>From article <12903@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, by clambert%hector@Sun.COM (Caroline Lambert [summer intern]):
| I think part of the problem with this discussion is that we've been
| discussing career choices of girls who have already been subjected
| to this subtle discrimination - this discrimination has to be
| 'countered' earlier on in life. Probably a child's teachers aren't
| going to be of any help, so it must be left to the parents, if they
| feel so inclined.

  One of the best stories I've heard about countering this kind of
socialization was from a friend's (aged) parents, who told how she
hit the ceiling when her father picked out a dress for her to wear
when she started kindergarden.

  "I'm not wearing a **dresss**! Only **girls** wear dresses."

  (She reportedly was aware she was female, like her mother, but
wasn't aware that girl meant female: she thought it meant wimp).

 --dave c-b
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