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Tolerance: Gender Issues

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Students explore why some professions have been gender-dominant in the past. In this lesson, students identify some professions that have typically had one specific gender employed in the past, then research that job to see when it became available to both men and women and who the person was that led the breakthrough.

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careers, the workforce

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jobs, profession, workforce, social studies
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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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2 days
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