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This article discusses a review of research study entitled, How Schools Shortchange Girls released by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), which is a recycled compilation of academic studies and feminist literature. The review raises important questions of textbook treatment, balance, representation, point of view, and sensitivity, this time, regarding women in history. As the title of the putative study suggests, the AAUW finds much that is wrong in our schools: sex discrimination and sex stereotyping, inadequate teacher training in gender issues and learning styles, the absence of gender fair multicultural curricula that avoid sex stereotypes, and more. The review found that textbooks still ignore or stereotype women, and girls learn almost nothing about many of their most pressing problems, like sexual abuse, discrimination and depression in the formulation of the New York Times. The AAUW review advocates solidarity in curriculum reform in adherence with the principles of militant multiculturalism. It praises the efforts of New York state education commissioner Thomas Sobol and tries to build an explicit alliance between multiculturalism, feminist-style school reform and the plight of the culturally different. The review conveys the idea that girls are getting a raw deal from textbooks and teachers. In reality, this review bends the facts and pretends that after twenty years, women and girls remain victims of education.

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