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Units

UNIT MEETINGS: DATES TIME PLACE

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Honolulu Evening: 7:30pm, home of Betty Bucks 2508 Olopua St, Hon 96822 phone 988-W197

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

Leeward Morning 9:00am, Pacific Village Recreation Assn, 98-280 Ualo St., phone 488-6650, Pat Rossi

Windward Morning: 9:30am, Kailua Library, 239 Kuulei Rd phone 261-4611

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Hawaii Kai Morning: 9:30am Hawaii Kai Library, 249 Lunalilo Home Road , phone 395-5711, AnnMarie Duca

Windward Evening: 7:30pm, Island Federal Savings and Loan, Kaneohe Bay Shopping Center. Ph 261-3262 Marian Heidel

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27

Honolulu Morning: 9:00am, Kaimuki Library (upstairs conference room ) 1041 Koko Head Ave, phone 536-0477 Dorothy Murdock,

If you take a #1 Bus leave it at the corner of Waialae and Koko Head Ayes. and walk two blocks.

Buses #3 and #4 run past the library on Koko Head Avenue.

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Water Pollution

Cesspool leaking call 548-3225

Ship Discharging sewage 548-2535

Oil Spill call 548-2211

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FEBRUARY UNITS

The purpose of these units is to exchange individual ideas about Sex Bias in education. To assist our discussing we have invited members of the Hawaii Task Force on Sex Bias in Education to join us as resource experts. The Task Force has worked for 22 months and involved more than 100 individuals. They have recently published their findings and action recommendations in a report available through Norma Titcomb at 9493160. Their conference held in late January attracted 200 participants. Their goal is to develop an understanding of sexism, what it is and how it is perpetuated; how it affects society and how it can be eliminated.

We hope the following excerpts from findings of the Task Force will turn you on to some of the long over looked realities concerning education in Hawaii. Think about -how the following facts affect you and your children - male or female.

  • ADMINISTRATION - Of 9,500 certificated employees in the DOE, 7,000 are female. Of those only 162 or 2% are in administrative positions, and at all administrative levels they hold lower status and salary ranges.

  • COUNSELING - ..."All aptitude and job preference tests we (the Task Force) have access to are found to be sex-biased and sex-role-stereotyped. They all use separate norms for males and females and they often have separate questionnaires for males and females. Job titles are stereotyped.

  • ATHLETICS - In 1972-73 expenses directly attributable to individual sports were about $510,000; $468,000, or more than 91% of that amount, was spent on boys; 342,000 or less than 9%,, was spent on girls. ..."even in non-income-producing sports alone, exclusive football and basketball, expenditures for boys exceed expenditures for girls by a ratio of better than three to one."

  • INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS - "A clear and persistent, though-sometimes indirect, message in learning materials concerns women and their role" in society.""... Sex bias is conveyed both directly and indirectly by various means:

    1. The first is proportional bias. This concerns the number of females presented as compared to the number of males.

    2. The second is sex-stereotyping. This is the pre-conceived notion about abilities, roles and behavior of men and women.

    3. The third is sexist language, such as the use of male nouns and pronouns to represent all people, or the use of career names with fixed-gender identities (draftsman, journeyman, craftsman, manpower, etc.

DO these facts startle you?

DO you care?

DO you think that these are issues that League should get into?

COME to February units and let your opinions be known.

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