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What’s Wrong with Women’s History Month?
Start Date: 4/11/2014Start Time: 8:30 AM
End Date: 4/11/2014End Time: 4:00 PM

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What’s Wrong with Women’s History Month?
Integrating Women's History into K-12 Education
 
What is Vision 2020?

The Vision 2020 Education Goal is to educate young people to value gender equality, shared leadership, and civic engagement.  One strategy to achieve this goal is to tell the overlooked and undervalued stories of women in American history.
 
The exclusion of women from American history textbooks, classrooms and discussion and the importance of telling their stories to both boys and girls has been well recognized in the last fifteen years including in the 1999 report of the President’s Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History.  Unfortunately, not much progress has been made in the years since.
 
Even today, classroom textbooks and curricula continue to be plagued by substantial gender bias in the presentation of American history. And while there are many lessons and resources on the activities and achievements of women available on the internet, many such resources are hard to find or clustered in the segregated category of Women’s History Month which first appeared as a national event - and only a week at that - in 1980.
 
Learning the neglected history of women is essential to the healthy and balanced development of both girls and boys; it is also a crucial part of enabling women to achieve the economic, political and social equality inherent in the promise of the 19th Amendment.
 
As we approach the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in the year 2020, women continue to lag behind men on almost every economic, political and social indicator of success. Overlooking and undervaluing women’s role in America’s past is part of the cause of these gender gaps in America’s present.  We will be more successful in closing the gender gaps in our future when we are more successful in closing the gender gaps in our past.

We propose to collect and share the untold stories of women leaders, scientists, explorers, doctors, teachers, inventors, athletes, artists, workers, sisters, wives and mothers.  When young people are exposed to the lives and experiences of women as part of their regular curriculum and activities – and not just during one special time set aside as Women’s History Month – then both boys and girls will be better able to understand and value gender equity and shared leadership among women and men.
 
We propose to begin our work in the Greater Philadelphia area, working with partners, local school districts, charter schools and out-of-school-time providers to develop, pilot and evaluate our strategies including but not limited to targeting young people at risk of poor academic achievement.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING OR WANT TO BE INCLUDED IN FUTURE EVENTS, PLEASE CONTACT: KRISTY KELLY (kek72@drexel.edu).
Contact Information:
Name: Kristy Kelly
Email: kek72@drexel.edu
School of Education
Attachments For This Event:
    > Vision 2020 Agenda
Location:
3101 Market Street, Room 175
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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