Educators help young children to see beyond gender stereotypes.
This article originally appeared in the November-December 1997 Children's Advocate newsmagazine, published by Action Alliance for Children. To the children, this was a good way to learn about and accept each other. The gender-bending play was just one result of Lillard's efforts to make her students more aware of gender equity. Funded by an AAUW grant, Kekelis and Buswell began four years ago with workshops for parents in twenty Bay Area preschool cooperatives. Children start to define their gender identities in their preschool years, Kekelis points out.