In elementary school textbooks of the past, images of professional, careeroriented men predominated. When women were depicted, they were shown as homemakers and mothers
Children learned that these were
appropriate, necessary roles to make a family function successfully in
society. How can children's textbooks be described today?
A. Today's textbooks for schoolchildren contain balanced depictions of
the sexes in a variety of societal and professional roles.
B. Today's textbooks for schoolchildren contain equal numbers of
depictions of men and women.
c. Today's textbooks are not all that different from past ones; roles for
the sexes are still predominantly stereotypical.
D. Today's textbooks attempt to depict women and men with equal
frequency and with more androgynous than sex-stereotypical
characteristics.
C
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