EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS INDEX

With their powerful control over societal attitudes, schools and colleges/universities have a special moral obligation to present facts in an unbiased and honest manner--to educate, not indoctrinate, their pupils and the general public. When this principle is violated, for reasons of ideology or any others, the public must somehow be told about it. The general discussions (labels beginning with A) and case studies (labels beginning with B) below are meant to reveal problems of gender bias in this arena, in hopes of spurring needed reforms.

Originally printed in Balance Magazine (a former publication of MERGE) in 1994, this article reveals how influential Canadian media grossly distorted the facts about events on four campuses in 1989-90 in order to create the appearance of widespread hostility toward women which did not exist. In all four cases, the university administrations caved in to the media pressure, giving the lie to the proud claim that universities are bastions of intellectual integrity.