At my uni we've been studying the way gender and sexism shapes the education curriculum.

This was an article we were actually donné to read and débats about in a seminar:

"Harry Potter's girl trouble
The world of everyone's favori kid wizard is a place where boys come first.
By Christine Schoefer

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Four factors made me go out and buy the Harry Potter books: Their impressive lead on the bestseller lists, parents' raves about Harry Potter's magical ability to turn kids into passionate readers, my daughters' clamoring and the mile-long waiting lists at the public library. Once I opened "The Sorcerer's...