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Beginning equal: The project on nonsexist childrearing

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Too often, three-year-old children entering preschool act in sex-stereotyped ways that tell us they already have incorporated the limits that proscribed sex-roles impose on girls and boys, women and men. Even in 1983, it is possible to walk into many preschool classes and see girls clustered in the housekeeping area while boys cluster in the block area.

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  1. Barbara Sprung
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Barbara Sprung, co-director of Educational Equity Concepts, Inc., in New York City, was a trainer/consultant for Project BE. For further project information write: Project Beginning Equal, 370 Lexington Ave., Room 603, New York, NY 10017.

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Sprung, B. Beginning equal: The project on nonsexist childrearing. Early Childhood Educ J 11, 6–8 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01616869

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