http://thesocietypages.org/citings/2010/09/06/why-can%e2%80%99t-you-sit-nicely-like-the-girls/ Sociology Online Wed, 08 Apr 2015 15:05:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 http://thesocietypages.org/citings/2010/09/06/why-can%e2%80%99t-you-sit-nicely-like-the-girls/#comment-1042 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 05:52:05 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/citings/?p=1905#comment-1042 And in the cycle of these things, girls may then be judged more harshly when they fail to accord to the positive stereotypes. I’m acquainted with a teacher who happens to have a primary-level class this year that is 2/3 male to 1/3 female, and it’s been fascinating (and mildly horrifying) to see the expectations and preconceptions she’s operating on. Recently, she had a pair of girls exhibit behaviour she had written off as “boys being boys” when it was the male students doing it. She then proceeded to explain how she 1) punished the girls more harshly than the boys, and 2) joined in with another teacher in shaming the girls because they “knew better” and “weren’t staying on-task when even a group of rambunctious boys were.”

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