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’ * *e., t hb P & * .g"\_ ;_._-':"'". “’»,:‘ ,f( » 3 , 4 0) ce ; *‘ Page 28 : Wateriga Chronicle, Wadnesday, January 10, 4078 (Continued from page 3) picture books to text books. In the 300 activities recordâ€" ed almost every one was covered by males and a small percentagg by females. Miss Fischew said the books had males who cried and who were brave. At the same time there were feâ€" males who cried but who were not brave. Men were cooks as well as engineers and women were only cooks. ‘‘What has happened up until 1975 is that the male role has expanded and the female role has stayed apâ€" proxfmately the same,"~ said Fischer. In st two years there has n"a gradual move towards equality. Up until 1975 decade by decade showed only minor fluctuaâ€" tions. Mr. Cheyne said the It must be nice to be one of those people who sail into a new year with high hopes, great expectations, and firm resolves. I am more inclined to back into it gingerly, head ducked as though awaiting a cuff from fate. I think, from experience, that you have to be young and naive, or old and religious, or just plain dumb, to expect the next year is going to be any better than the last. _ _ For example: I know I‘m going to be one year older and uglier; I know I‘m going to have fewer teeth and less hair; I know I‘m going to be utterly flabbergasted at the arrant thievery of the government when I make out the cheque for income tax on the last day of April; I know that more and more of my friends, relatives and colleagues are goâ€" ing to be struck down by cancer, heart attacks, a broken marriage. or the crud. _ I know that my daughter won‘t be able to get a job as a teacher, after a gruelling year of preparing for same and raising two kids on the side. _ â€" I am quite certain that my two grandboys are going to get steadily more difficult to handle. (One of them, not quite four years old, made a dreadful suggestion to a lady in a store not long before Christmas, as my wife and I looked around wildâ€"eyed, pretending we didn‘t know him or each other.) I got a raise this year, but am perfectly aware that it doesn‘t allow me to keep up with inflation. I saved some money this year, for the first time in 30, by continuing to drive a 10â€"yearâ€"old car, but I know every dollar tucked away (and paid taxes on)}) will be worth 82 cents when it comes time to spend it. I know full well that during the coming year I will have to undergo the ordeal of a federal election. in which a bunch of nincompoops try to convince me that they can run the country better than a bunch of turkeys. I am fully cognizant of the fact that my wife is going to be on my back in 1978 for moral turpitude, physical lassiâ€" tude. and mental ineptitude, not to mention a number of other things that can‘t be classified in a family journal. Economically. the country is. depending on your point of view, either up the creek without a paddle or going over the falls with a motor stuck in high gear. _ Next fall, my students will be the absolute worst I‘ve ever had. there will be more of them, eight will be on drugs. gix will be alcoholics, Tive will get pregnant, and T‘ll be taken off to the funny factory. The day featured winter It was huffin‘ and puffin‘ fun Saturday at the Laurel Creek nature _ centre area during the toboggan races as part of Winter Celebration Weekend. sored by the cons tion area authorities. Why don‘t I just shoot myself then. instead of heading $+5iut::*f gw ts upt :4 . .}“_37{; ,': 5 + ¢ti RUNNING ARAAGGED > change that‘s taking place now has to be. of a radical nature but although he believes the issue could stand a bit of overkill it is not likely to be taken to exâ€" Miss Fischer‘s research has shown that an early process of socialization inâ€" volves the children perâ€" ceiving males to be more powerful. Up to a certain age they don‘t change their way of thinking. ‘‘Once they pick out a powerful role it is always assigned to a male and the children make no excepâ€" tions," said Miss Fischer. ‘‘Up until the age of five children don‘t realize their mother has an occupation even if she goes out to work every day. They haven‘t any way of seeing it." *L went through the Onâ€" tario system and some of the books we looked at I had had and there are still a few left from when I went through 30 years ago," said Mr. Cheyne. "It didn‘t make an impact in the sense of my being aware of it but when I went through and looked at these things I couldn‘t believe it." Mr. Cheyne said that as well as being underâ€"repreâ€" sented women often tend to be thebutt of jokes. ‘‘When an author wants to inject a bit of humour it‘s the wife joke or the little girl who doesn‘t know about this or about that. It comes up in the most unexpected places. Ilâ€" lustrations show the feâ€" male negative and the male positive,"‘ said Mr. Cheyne. Of course I‘ll be one year older. But I‘ll be one year smarter, at least in theory. It‘s not true that TI‘ll have fewer teeth. I‘ll have more. I‘m getting that euphemism called a "partial plate.""‘ Less hair, but I can always get a toupee or a fall. Uglier, for certain, but there comes a point when ugly starts to become beautiful. ‘"His face has a lot of character," they say, meaning that you look like something that just swam home from the Crimean War. into 1978 with all these bogeymen riding my shoulders? You may well ask. Because life is the tife. As my daughter once remarked at the age of six, and which I have since considered one of the great philosophical gems of the 20th century. Sure my buddies will be stricken with everything from a slipped cervix to a swollen colon, but a couple of them were marked up for the big final registration last year, and came through with flying colors and a heightened love of life. Maybe my kid won‘t get a job teaching. Maybe it‘s a good thing: How would you like to spend your working hours with a bunch of teachers, as 1 do? O.K. my grandboys are really rotten. But they aren‘t any more rotten than their mother was 20 years ago. She‘s just now beginning to admit to us what she was doâ€" ing when we thought she was at Sunday School. I‘m slipping behind financially, but who isn‘t? My prisonerâ€"ofâ€"war pension soared by 7.5 per cent on Jan. 1, so I‘m on the glory trail. It is now almost 60 bucks a month. No question, we‘ll have a federal election. But what‘s to worry when our Grand Guru, Pierre Himself, says that if we all think positively, the economy will pick up? Who can argue with something as solid as that? Certainly not the poor dope who has been out of work for two years. He‘s probably not thinking positively. No doubt, no doubt at all, that my wife will be on my back through 1978 for all the things mentioned, and some new ones she‘ll think up. But what the hell? I‘m used to it; and we‘re still man and wife, although she might quibâ€" ble about that designation, or parts of it. As for my students next fall, they will undoubtedly be the same mixed bag of mixedâ€"up adolescents they have always been, and we‘ll get along fine once they realize that Mr. Smiley is a bit senile and must be humored. Last year was pretty bad, and this year will be worse, but life is the life, and it sure beats lying there in the graveyard with your hands on your tummy. ‘‘That‘s importantâ€"to stress. It‘s not simply represenâ€" tation. If you go on you see all these little subtle things."‘ Mr. Cheyne drew a size distribution between males and females. Although the majority of males are taller than females it is not uncommon to see a woman taller than a man or vice versa. The associate proâ€" fessor said that in literature the authors only make use of the two distribution points. _ Statistical _ difâ€" ferences become an abâ€" solute cut off point. ‘"‘That‘s â€" the _ insidious thing, _ that _ exceptions aren‘t tolerated," he said. ‘"*Ever seen an illustration of a boy and a girl of a simiâ€" lar age where the girl is taller? If you do it is likely differences between boys to be the butt of a joke and they (the authors) are making a very specific _ Mr. Cheyne said that he has collected data and he could make this statement he would have to study it in depth and collect reams of ‘*And this is the first difference," said Miss Fischâ€" er. ‘"‘The difference beâ€" tween two groups or cateâ€" gories as opposed to there being an absolute difference between males and females. Books have made this nonâ€" overlapping and there is something wrong with you if you are in the wrong difference,‘"‘ said Miss Fisch preâ€"schoolers and Mr. er. ‘"‘The difference bee Cheyne is quite sure they tween two groups or catee didn‘t get this attitude from gories as opposed to there their parents. _ being an absolute difference â€" To determine just how between males and females. much impact â€"books have Books have made this nonâ€" â€" on children is the purpose of overlapping and there is Miss Fischer‘s next Minisâ€" something wrong with you try funded project. She, if you are in the wrong with the aid of a former category." teacher now with the uniâ€" Dobooks have a direct efâ€"~ ‘versity, ~are in ‘the process fect on children? of drawing up nonâ€"sexist ‘"‘There‘s no way of curriculum and by next measuring that because you â€" fall a school will be chosen can‘t distinguish what efâ€" and the $40,000 project will fect a text book is having be implemented. ‘"‘There‘s no way of measuring that because you can‘t distinguish what efâ€" fect a text book is having on a child compared to the effect of the home environâ€" ment, what a teacher is doing or what the medium is saying. It is impossible to measure," said Miss Fischer. Mr. Cheyne said it is quite clear that the books do have some effect but it St. Agatha 4â€"H attend Dairy Acheivement Day The Waterloo Area Achievement,; Day for 4â€"H Homemakers who â€" have completed the project ‘‘Dairy Fare" was held December 17, 1977 at the Mount Zion Church in Elâ€" mira. The local Home Econoâ€" mist Miss Karen Chisolm along with a visiting home economist questioned the girls on the importance of dairy products. After lunch parents and friends were invited to attend, to observe the skit‘s & displays each club had prepared. ' There was a lot of work put into each club‘s project and they all were well done. At the end of the day each girl who satisfactorily comâ€" pleted the project received a silver 4â€"H spoon. The St. Agatha Milk Shakers would like to exâ€" tend a hearty thanks to the Rummelheart Women‘s club for sponsoring their club. We would also like to thank these women for inviting the By Sharon Salm is impossible to say how much of an impact they have compared to other things children encounter. He cited a case where a triend of his observed their daughter playing with an other child. They were playâ€" ing doctor and the one child said to the other, ‘"You can‘t are a little girl."‘ The child‘s own mother was a doctor. mothers & daughters of the 4â€"H club to their Christmas Pot Luck Supper. _ L It gave the girls a chance to meet the women and discuss what had been hapâ€" pening in the 4â€"H club. Mrs. Walker, the leader of the St. Agatha Club was presented with a gift that evening from her 4â€"H club, as a token of thanks for all the time she devoted to the girls. Thanks again Mrs. Walker. The problem of sexâ€"role stereotyping and its effect on children is a big one and according to Mr. Cheyne it is becoming bigger and bigger all the time. ‘"‘Unlike real life which is inconsistent, books are very consistent," said Mr. Cheyne. _ Our spring club will be a Clothing & Textiles club enâ€" titled ‘‘Sleepwear‘‘ Each member will select a patâ€" tern and complete a garment suitable for sleep attire. More details on when and where this club will be held, will come on a later date. As usual, new club memâ€" bers are welcome, but memâ€" bers must be between the ages of 12 to 15 years of age for the Junior Club and 16 to 26 years of age for the Senior Club. So if your between the ages 12 to 26 years why not plan to attend and "learn to do by doing ‘.