Making Gender a Variable in Social Work Teaching

The ideology of women's roles provides a framework for making gender a variable in social work teaching. The construction of gender ideologies is described. The incorporation of gender ideology and gender stereotypes into the social knowledge base, and research methodology as well as into clinical practice, social services, social welfare policy and pedagogy are detailed. Alternative formulations found in the new social sciences scholarship on women is presented in an effort to promote a gender-balanced practice of teaching.