Croydon | IMGpapers 1968

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The last meeting of Surry NJACWER was held on Wednesday 18th March. The main ivem on the agenda was discussion on the education of women introduced by Barbara Wilson. This covered pre-school education upto and including university education and day release schemes. At all stages in the educational process a girl is conditioned to think of herself primarily as a future wife and mother and to fit into her conventionally defined role. This may be done through the books which are used to teach children to read and also in their play where girls are invariably nursess and boys doctors.

In the secondary schools disorimination gets into its stride more obviously. Girls are mainly trained for temporary, largely unrewarding jobs. While G.C.E. results show that there is no inborn difference between the abilities of boys and girls, the level of expenditure on each is not equal. For example, the amount spent per annum per pupil taking science

Boy Girl

LEA Grammar 13/64 11/64

Direct Grant 21/94 11/34

Independent 27/34 12/04

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Incidently, these figures also show the raw deal that working class boys get compared with those who go to Direct Grant or Independent Schools.

The Crowther report on education advocates that a curriculua should be - developed which respects the different roles which boys and girls play, so things could get worse with girls being channelled increasingly into domestic . and arts subjects.

On the question of university education it was pointed out that according to the Robbins Report a woman has less chance of being accepted for a degree course and that the proportion of women students has remained static at approximately 25% since the end of the last war. Also that the proportion of science students who are women in now lower than before the war.

There was some discussion on a campaign to obtain more day nurseries for working mothers in Croydon, which at present has approximately 100 council nursery placés to cover a population of 330,000. The nest meeting of Surrey NJACWER will take place on April 15th at 8.00p.m. at 20, Rymer Road, Hast Croydon. The main topic for discussion will be the Equal Pay Bill.

Carol Day.