higher proportions of girls than they are at present teaching.
which are none the less cherished for being unexamined.
So wrote the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions (which merged with the Association of Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education to form National Association Teachers in Further and Higher Education) in 1973 in a report on *The Education, Training Employment oiwomen Girls'. The ATTI was one of the nirst unions to support ine work ing Women's Charter, ine Enird point of which demands: •We believe, therefore, that action is necessary at several points to help women and girls overcome the effects of past and present deprivation. This does not impy lowering standards to benefit women and so replacing one form of injustice by another. History has seen to it that women have been given "special" treatment of a detrimental kind. If they are to take their chance on their merits as human beings, the elements of their "special" position must be identified and acted on in an appropriate way.
*The colleges of further education occupy a key place, and they should take steps to redress the dangerous imbalance between the sexes in further education that has been shown to exist, by such measures as recruiting *We know that in putting forward this policy we are not only asking for radical social and economic changes, but are also by implication attacking deeply rooted assumptions about the respective roles of men and women, What are the implications of this demand? Real equality education and training means an end to sex segregation in courses.
At present NATFHE teach courses that channel students into 'women's' and men's jobs.
Many college courses are com and posed of students of wholly or ane mainiy one sex. predominate in nursing, teaching, naircressne and snornana come male students in science and tech"Equal nology and craft subjects. education than men. In addition the effect of the cuts is to reduce courses in which women do predominate, teaching, thus lessening women's overall share in education.
In opposing education NATHE members should fight for increased opportunnies women students.
Sub-committee Council, on which NATHE is represented, is preparing a foundation course specifically aimed at Temale schoo seavers Charter with regara to its wome! members. teachers already have equality 15 misleading. give the same rates for men and members women, but women are disproportionately concentrated on the lower scales.
Women lecturers also teach remale studcus Humanites mercial and secretarial skills, nursing, teaching, fashion, etc. women are also affected by in equality in promotion opportuni such as nursing and CUIS should lose their jobs first.
TO For instance, 1aUC echnolog NATHE can also take up the SCIence The idea that women technology The pay scales may Engineering often subjects -ngineerin liberal studies, chnolog science Thus courses part-time contracts. They are also leading to the closure of college nurseries or preventing necessary expansion in this field. And it is CHICH. not to be supposed that all members of NAIrHe will be immun to the idea that married women their All of these are good reasons Rally Univ first degrees 218, CNAA first degrees 8728 2348 420028 should adopt the ATTI policy of support for the Working Women's Meanwhile NATHE members can attend the Rally for Women's Rights on 26 February and try to get support for it from branches and regions. The is an excellent opportunity professional and ONL engineering technology science ONC science social/admin/ 1192
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