Women and Education by Michelle Webber

Webber,M.(2010). Women and education. In N. Mandell(Ed.), Feminist Issues:

Race, class, and sexuality (5th ed., pp. 247-272). Toronto: Pearson Canada.

Introduction:

For this article, I focused on three main points of view: authorial voice, evaluation voice, and self-reflective voice. Through these different voices, you can see different perspective on the article. Gender can have implications that lead other individuals to act upon certain aspects. Racial also affects how one another might be placed in society due to lack of appreciation from others. Lastly, class status also focuses on how one is accepted from higher belongings. The three voices have as their subject's gender, race, and class; these three are shown to be interrelated with one another, and the author shows how one can affect another.

Author Voice:

In the article Women and Education by Michelle Webber, there are many concepts which the author connects with gender, race, and class as a whole. In the article, the writer explores how gender inequality interconnects with racialized perspectives on education and with male and female gender roles. The gender inequality leads to different treatment of men and women, as shown throughout the article. In the classroom environment, where teachers tend to accept inappropriate behaviour from males when they are speaking up in classrooms, males often do not have to raise their hands up before speaking; the same behaviour from female students is seen as being unacceptable and deserving of harsh correction. However, in a racial perspective on education, teachers can be seen as viewing black females' femininity as being rough and over-confident, which are both examples of racialized insights. The unfair treatment of black students, who are referred to as being disregarded in classrooms, is another key point that the author feels strongly about. In conclusion, the author feels as if education today does not provide equal opportunity for girls, but even more unequal in the case of colored girls .To prove this, the author uses different citations from different articles, and different sources throughout the entire article. According to the author, education may be seeing equalization in Canada, but somehow it still seems to divide and create walls between the genders, races, and classes. Gender inequality and racialization are issues that keep the entire article together, as they are both frequently brought up to show emphasis and show that these subject and issues needs to be addressed seriously.

Evaluate Voice:

Females and males that went to the same school were isolated from each other by being put in different areas. For example, "There were separate entrances and separate playgrounds..." (331). Also, boys and girls were often told what courses to take and how they should act in a society. For example,, women are mainly told that education means nothing to them because they are supposed to be a house wife; or, if their family does allow them to have an option of continuing their education, they should be in a more aiding occupation, such as that of a social worker. A major point that caught my attention in this article is how the author stated that a teacher or professor accepts comments from males