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NEW YORK (UPS) — In books for preschool children, girls water plants, boys carry trash. Girls dust the house and boys build houses. The Ford Foundation is worried about such clear-cut cases of sex role stereotyping in materials aimed at boys and girls in their most impressionable years. Erasing such stereotyping in books and playthings for pres choolers is one aim of a $7 million grant from the Foundation to im prove opportunities for women. A grant of $95,370 to the New School for Social Research, in cooperation with the Women’s Ac tion Alliance, will help develop a nonsexist curriculum for preschool children in childcare centers. For example the foundation not ed, the only females in some pup pet show material are witches and princesses. Hopefully, the materials to be developed with the grant, will find other roles for females in puppet land —thereby in the world of en tertainment, reflecting more truth fully the real world. Other grants in the overall Ford program range from those for abortion education to legal pro jects. As part of this, the foundation is helping to develop materials for the Preterm Institute, a 3- year-old outpatient abortion facility in Washington, D.C. Nine manuals under preparation will describe the delivery of abor tion services in a medically sound and sensitive manner. The man uals will be distributed to doctors, nurses, counselors and other abor tion service workers through Planned Parenthood Affiliate, pregnancy consultation services, medical schools and health and so cial welfare agencies. The Women's Law Fund of Cleveland, which receives about 70 per cent of its support from the Ford Foundation, has been work ing on legal rights for women.
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South Mississippi Sun
Biloxi, Mississippi, US
Fri, Jun 14, 1974
Page 12
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