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[|Gender Bias in Education]
An article by Amanda Chapman of D'Youville College Gender bias in education is an insidious problem that causes very few people to stand up and take notice. Teachers need to recognize when their own gender bias impacts their teaching and how to respond to gender inequity in text, videos or other formats.

[|Seeing Gender: Tools for Change Project]
Seeing Gender, an NSF funded project, was designed to develop and test an interactive CD-ROM that can be used as an instructional device for pre-service and inservice teachers, teacher education faculty, and college faculty in STEM fields. STEM stands for the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (**STEM**) Education Coalition. The CD-ROM is intended to 1) introduce educators and future educators to research on gender and gender socialization, 2) sensitize users to the gender bias that operates in STEM classrooms and programs, and 3) expose users to classroom strategies and interventions designed to reduce gender bias. The overall goal of this project is to reduce gender bias in STEM classes and programs and increase the number of women who pursue STEM classes and careers. [|Here is link to the teachers module of the online version of the cd-rom]

**Counting on Computer Equity: A Quick and Easy Guide to Finding Out if Your School Has a Computer Gender Gap (1991) by Jo Sanders and Mary McGinnis.**
The booklet contains guidelines for figuring your baseline and assessing electives, free-access time in school, required classroom use, use outside school, and future plans involving computers. Published by Scarecrow Press and distributed by Jo Sanders Publications, Seattle, WA. 14 pages, $4.95 per copy, plus 15% for shipping and handling. Order by sending email request to: 

**Infusing Equity by Gender into the Classroom: A Handbook for Classroom Practices. (1999). Regularly updated.**
The intent of the Handbook is that it be a "living document" that will be routinely updated. For this reason, the "Gender Equity Handbook," as it has become known by its creators, is designed for a three-ring binder to be distributed to schools. Available at: http://www.ricw.state.ri.us/about.htm

[|Gender Equality Fact Sheet] Recent data on gender inquity on a global level. [|State of the World Population 2000] Lives together, worlds apart: men and women in a time of change.