I ran across this article this morning. Thought folks here would find it interesting.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101116/sc_livescience/...
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Interesting
The last time I attended a mixed school was way back in 1951 when I was 11 and not only did boys and girls line up separately before filing into class through different entrances but we had totally divided play areas too. In the boys' playground it was football, marbles, or cigarette cards and in the girls' it was skipping or co-operative ball games. I think the only time we played the same games was in the whip and top season but even then boys had 'window breaker' peg tops and competed to see how far we could make them jump and the girls tended to spin bigger tops with chalked patterns on them.
I suppose it's different now but it's only when I look back do I realise how much things have changed during my life. Personally I think most things are better now but people haven't really changed; they just accommodate to natural developments and new thoughts - more gender equality being just one of them.
Just have a look at these old adverts, many of which I remember seeing in magazines and newspapers.
http://owni.eu/2010/11/08/top-48-ads-that-would-never-be-all...
Robi
I saw those
Talk about how times has changed. Makes you wonder about stuff today that will be off limits in the future. I think the ones that most caught my attention was the the one from the shirt manufacture. They popped up in more than one category!
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Genders were pretty seperated when i was young too.
boys and girls went through separate entrances when i was in elementary, and for some reason, only girls were allowed to be crossing guards (and had to wear skirts when doing the job). There was at least one case of boys being dressed as girls as punishment. And even when I was in high school, boys couldn't take Home Economics, and were forced to take shop.
dorothycolleen
Yikes!
Forced to take shop? I knew and respected our shop teacher a great deal, but you couldn't pay me to take the class.
The closest thing we had to forced electives was in seventh grade, where the first year we had to take three seperate elective intro-courses over the course of the year in music theory, Agricultural Studies (shop teacher also taught Agri), and ... Gah! I can't remember the third one. Probably some form of Phys Ed.
I absolutely loved Home Ec though, even though it was a more modernized focus on things like inexpensive/nutritious meal planning than things like sewing. We did study family care and touched on child psych, but we mercifully avoided the infamous "bag of flour baby" stuff.
/ramble :-D