Friday, April 20, 2007

Nationally known researcher of gender bias to speak at UT Arlington

By Pegasus News wire

American University professor David Sadker

ARLINGTON—The College of Education at The University of Texas at Arlington will present David Sadker, nationally known for his work in confronting gender bias and sexual harassment, in an open discussion titled “Is Gender Bias Still an Issue?” from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 2.

Sadker is a professor at American University (Washington, DC). Along with his late wife, Myra, he has researched and widely documented sex bias from the classroom to the boardroom. Topics up for discussion during his campus visit will include the male-female communications gap; how to “see” gender bias in the classroom; practical observation skills and teaching strategies for equitable classrooms.

The Sadkers’ work has been reported in hundreds of newspapers and magazines including USA Today, USA Weekend, Parade Magazine, Business Week, The Washington Post, The London Times, The New York Times, Time and Newsweek. They appeared on local and national television and radio shows such as “The Today Show,” “Good Morning America,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Phil Donahue’s “The Human Animal,” National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” and twice on “Dateline: NBC with Jane Pauley.”

The Sadkers received the American Educational Research Association’s award for the best review of research published in the United States in 1991, a professional service award in 1995, the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from The American Association of University Women in 1995, and the Gender Architect Award from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education in 2001.

The Sadkers’ book, Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, was published by Touchstone Press in 1995, and their introductory teacher education textbook, Teachers, Schools and Society, (McGraw Hill, 2005) is now in its seventh edition

The talk is free and open to the public and will be held in the Rosebud Theatre of the E.H. Hereford University Center, 300 W. First St.

For more information, contact Courtney Williams, director of STEM Gender Equity at UT Arlington, at cwilliam@uta.edu.

Source: UTA

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