Confronting Career Stereotypes

inner city, kids of color talk about what they will become in school - career roles & what they mean - discuss what gender means . . . football player, cowboys, doctors . . . gender role gender plays in what they will become - hockey player, cook, race car drivers - teacher leads discussion . . . man works, woman stays home, role of motherhood, what a stereotype is - what they’d like to be when they grow up . . . girl as astronaut, boy as secretary . . .negative responses result of stereotypes.