How America's schools cheat girls . Attracting and retaining women to predominately male-oriented areas of study has been an issue seriously debated within academic and professional communities. The Sadkers have researched the concept of gender bias since the 1960s. Their latest venture presents an embarrassing view of the teaching profession, one worthy of serious consideration when analyzing why females do or do not select traditionally male dominated areas of study. Because every action has an equal and opposite reaction, the male persona is not unaffected.
Gender bias feeds male power struggles and leads to their own miseducation.
Males are thrust into a competitive mode while their female counterparts become mere classroom spectators. Despite teachers' proclivities to the contrary, the researchers describe subtle ways in which gender bias is woven into the classroom landscape. Boys, on the average, use any type of exhortation deemed necessary to attract the teacher's attention. Girls, positioned on the opposite end of the spectrum, don't seem to buy into this particular style. Female invisibility at its best.