Gendered Education in the United States

This research paper is a brief discussion about the gender biasness in between boys and girls in United States. The study suggests that the gender biasness in the education system starting from elementary and kindergarten schools from high schools and university is affecting the mind-set of the students in terms of gendered discrimination and follow them up in greater perspectives as suggested in stereotypical point of view.

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Introduction:
Our communication processes have been developed from the ancient period of time,
experiencing evolvement in terms of our sharing ideas and beliefs. Human race have
experienced changes in communicative processes with the different approaches related to
cultures and gendered aspects. Therefore, in present time people use different types of verbal
and nonverbal expressive methods to communicate among each other. The processes in
communication varies in some cases like the genders have their own aspect of
communicating and thinking processes of their own. Here, this research paper will be related
to the evaluation of verbal and nonverbal communication of boys and girls who were treated
differently throughout their academic careers.
Discussion:
The ways of communication in between people have changed a lot in course of time
and the approaches in between boys and girls regarding communication has got more variety
of specific terms like language, culture and patterns of communicative systems. From the
beginning the communication based on gender has taught the boys and girls different ways of
talking and perceiving different emotions in terms of biased gendered educational systems.
Are Boys and Girls taught gender in our public school systems?
Boys and Girls after joining schools are being treated differently throughout their
academic journey, mainly based on their gender. Therefore, it can be said that the gender is
not only taught about in the biology classes only. From the beginning of academic career in
schools, boys are given more attention and provided with more academic possibilities than a
girl in the same class. These affect the possibilities of the girls in the class in expressing their
thinks and thoughts regarding any important topic related to academic development.
(Christensen, 2015).

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Are Female and Male students given equal support in K-12 schools?
In a serious note, girls perform better than boys in the K-12 model schools or an
elementary academic schooling. The K-12 model school model results them a higher grade
than boys because of having less gendered education rules in the academic course sessions. In
general, most of the girls choose arts and literature subjects after the completion of high
schools and boys like to prefer maths and sciences in according to their likeable subject
(Gracia, 2015). Therefore, the grades do not affect their career perspectives, though in some
cases on the higher education Boys are less considered as a good student rather than a girl
(Kim, 2018). As reported in the last few years, there are many issues relating to the higher
studies of the students. The number of students enrolled in the graduation program of
sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics as in STEM fields has been found to
higher number of male students compared to female in the first year. Therefore, there is clear
sign of gender inequality in higher educational insitutions.
What differences a student evaluates male and female instructors?
A student in the higher education can evaluate his or her instructors with the regime
of Student Evaluations of Teachers (SET), the universities ask the students to routinely
provide feedback of their instructors about how they are teaching and providing the students
the study materials to help them grow irrespective of gender, colour, race and culture.
Though some reports do suggest that, students’ evaluation of the instructors based on to the
gender are quite natural. As in the report suggests, gender biasness do exist in terms of the
evaluation of the instructors. Though, students from the universities have neglected the idea
of biasness in the aspects of gender in the instructors’ point of view (Sutton, Bosky & Muller,

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2016). Students have reported that the instructors in the universities irrespective of their
genders are not gender biased to the students.
How colleges and universities either support or disregard gender issues on campus?
The gender biasness between boys and girls starts from elementary schools where
they are treated and taught differently than each other. This gendered activities needs to be
reduced in course of time in order to enhance the role of every gender in the college and
university campuses (Bailey & Graves, 2016). The Universities of United States are working
towards creating more dynamic and sustainable understanding between the gender
perspectives in their campuses. The increasing programmes of engagement of among students
in promoting active and collaborative approaches to enrich their educational experiences. As
per the researches, students require a campus climate that enhances the relation among them
and also supports them in encouraging one’s gender values in the university campuses.
Many reports support the fact that forms the idea of increasing violence among
students on all college campuses, and the main victims of sexual harassment are both men
and women, though the number of female victims are disproportionately much higher.
Considering all the facts, the American Association of University Professors’ faculty of
gender equality suggests to start a student health insurance facility to cover and maintain all
the medical transitions in the campus (Gracia, 2015). Therefore, the mental health of
campuses can be enhanced with engaging students with mental health professionals who are
well trained to develop culturally sensitive issues with counselling the students in order to
help the students in decreasing the gender non-conforming identities as well as maintain a
healthy and responsible perspective to educate and enhance the gender roles in the university

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campuses. Therefore, the Universities of United States are planning to assess these places that
can be recreated by serving the students and faculties a better environment in the campuses
towards becoming more sustainable gender focused atmosphere.
Conclusion:
This research paper is a brief discussion about the gender biasness in between boys
and girls in United States. The study suggests that the gender biasness in the education
system starting from elementary and kindergarten schools from high schools and university is
affecting the mind-set of the students in terms of gendered discrimination and follow them up
in greater perspectives as suggested in stereotypical point of view. As suggested in course of
the paper, that students needed to be guided well rather than judging them based on to their
gender, as the reason is their development process needed to be upgraded rather than stagnant
them with stereotypical idea of gender limitations.

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