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Gender Equity Means Opportunity, Says Westchester Author & Retired Teacher Gender Equity Means Opportunity, Says Westchester Author & Retired Teacher
Gender Equity Means Opportunity, Says Westchester Author & Retired Teacher A group of kindergartners are given generic outlines of people depicting careers — firefighters, pilots, police officers, doctors — and asked to name the figures.  Would you be surprised to learn that overwhelmingly the students chose boys' names?  By kindergarten gender expectations are often already in place, but they don’t have to stay set in place. “Gender Equity in Elementary Schools” is a new book by longtime Mount Kisco resident Dorothy Chiffriller Venditto, who taught in the Bedford School District for 15 years and recently retired.   Her interest in gender equity began about 10 …

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by Vira Mamchur Schwartz