Open AccessGender Differences and Instructional Discrimination in the Classroom
Author(s) -
Carolyn Butcher Dickman
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of invitational theory and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1060-6041
DOI - 10.26522/jitp.v2i1.3754
Subject(s) - george (robot) , superlative , teachable moment , psychology , interview , pedagogy , sociology , history , art history , psychoanalysis , anthropology , philosophy , linguistics
Sharlene George had done exceptionally well in school. She had straight A's, had 99th percentiles on her GRE, and had published as an undergraduate. She applied to several graduate science programs, among them Stanford. At the culmination of her interview there she was interrogated by the head of the department, who was at the moment a "famous man." "Miss George, do you know why I'm interviewing you?" Sharlene replied that she presumed it was because her records were superlative and she was so clearly a fine candidate for graduate school. "No," the star said. "That's not why at all. It's because this year (it was 1967, the height of the Vietnam War) I'm reduced to the lame, the halt, the blind and the women" (Gornick, 1990, pp. 96-7).