I created my action research plan from something my site supervisor said about career and technology classes being gender slanted in ag tech and welding. She also was concerned with the low ratio of male students in what she called nursing.
I pulled a few things together into a little bit of research--I needed to do it for my course anyway --and presented my findings to Stephanie and the staff. One staff member wanted to know why her subject wasn't part of the study, and another objected to the word 'Nursing' to lump her myriad of courses together in one word.
The next thing she said gave me pause, however. If the counselors and administrators, and presumably teachers and students are doing the same, the stereotypes have entrenched themselves so tightly and so deep that the stereotype exists because the counselors and administrators and teachers refer to her classes as nursing instead of paramedics or radiologists or any of the other fields they can learn about when they enter one of her programs. They are just all lumped together in one word-- nursing.
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