Despite the women's movement, there is still gender inequality in the schools, often because boys and girls are treated differently in school. The article discusses the various forms of gender inequality, presents nine steps to a bias-free classroom, and looks at the move toward gender equality. (SM)

Argues that textbook language influences classroom talk in both coercive and liberating ways. Offers an approach that helps teachers use that fact to get students thinking about texts' hidden messages, in particular regarding gender inequalities. (SR)

Discusses gender-equity issues in science and engineering classrooms. Emily Wadsworth, assistant director of Women in Engineering Programs at Purdue University, developed Classroom Climate Workshops to act out scenarios that highlight gender inequality and encourage females to remain in these disciplines. (AIM)

Provides objectives and guidelines for preparing and executing a classroom exercise using superhero comic books. Discusses variations on the exercise for topics such as sociology of gender, social inequality, research methods, and introduction to sociology. Addresses purchasing comic books for the course. (CMK)

Courses: Health Communication, Gender Communication, Communication and Food, Communication and Diversity, Ethnography, Critical/Cultural Studies, or Qualitative Methods. Objectives: Explain, assess, and critique the social, cultural, and political discourses related to food. Analyze how communication about food reflects and influences issues of…

Tries to make explicit race/class/gender connections in an undergraduate seminar on stratification. Students learn about models of social class and mobility and ideas of inequality. Attempts to balance the syllabus by including material about different groups and a representative group of scholars. Describes classroom discussions and experiences.…