Reviewing Gender Discrimination in K12 Education

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.325How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gender discrimination, K12 education, Textbook, School, Family

Abstract

This paper reviews five main manifestations and causes of gender discrimination in K12 education: teaching materials, teachers’ attitudes, educational opportunities, traditional family concepts, and family investments in education. By analyzing these factors, the researcher tries to find out the appropriate ways to alleviate gender discrimination, which aims to promote gender equality in education. The researcher analyzed these factors by using the literature review method. The researcher mainly finds that: 1) K12 textbooks show gender discrimination through illustrations and contents; 2) In K12 education, teachers’ unbalanced care and stereotypes towards male and female students also lead to gender discrimination in classes; 3) The idea of son preference and discrimination against women in the workplace will push families to become more inclined to provide men with more educational resources. This paper is helpful for teachers, students, and parents to realize gender equality in K12 education, which might inspire them to treat girls more equally in education.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhuofei Lv
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - Reviewing Gender Discrimination in K12 Education
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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