EFFECT OF GENDER OPPRESSION,DISCRIMINATION AND STERCOTYPING

EFFECT OF GENDER OPPRESSION,DISCRIMINATION AND STERCOTYPING

(a).Poor performance –most pupils especially girls generally perform poorly in academic wise because there is no human touch in the textbooks .Education issues carried in the text books are supposed to be equated with people’s lives .None use of human names and pictures in presentation of matter alienating the subject from normal human .

(b).Inferiority complex-women feel or tend inferior due to customs which make a gape between men and women e.g when they discovered that the work they have done and the production they have got is for the men only and the women are less concerned.

(c).Community and family attitudes toward work roles –

(i).The participation of women in some works e.g politics is minimal when compared to men.

(ii).Women play dominant role in agriculture but policies regulating agriculture favour men .

(iii).Parent often demand more household from girls than boys.

(iv).Stereotypes limit girls /women’s expectation and lower their achievement motivation.

(v).Other materials (written materials) rarely focus on information for / or about women or they relegate this information to special sections of magazines, newspapers and courses of study .

(vi).Policies on lateness, absenteeism and pregnancy discriminate more against girls (at school ) because of their expected responbilities.