ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at that universal role of women – child-rearing and home-making – and examines what teachers do and can do to prepare adolescent girls for it. There are academically able adults who consider that schools should only teach academic subjects. They would protest against accepting any responsibility for other aspects of education on the grounds that parents should do such work. Teachers are in a strong position to effect some sort of revolution in the whole of the country’s attitude to child care. This could include the recognition of the plight of adolescent girls, the dual role that society demands of them: that of hard worker in school, competitive and aspiring; but dependent, gentle, uncompetitive seductress out of school.
