Shame and Gender

In part IV Bartky describes gender roles in the classroom and goes into detail about female students v. male students. I am not sure what perspective of the classroom she is discussing, i.e. private schools or public. I experienced both from 1986-94 in private and 94-98 in public. Bartkys' sexist teacher analogies I would infer are from male instructor dominated classrooms, my private school was all female, including all elements of faculty and administration. I recall just the opposite in the classroom, although I could see the omnipresence of culture influencing some female teachers to behave towards other students in the manner Bartky describes. Though in my public school in the mid to late 90's the top percentile in my classes were generally females. In fact almost the bottom 10% were entirely males (including myself) out of 207. I cant suggest how the classroom has improved or degraded since 98, however if it was on the same track it could be a eagaltarianistic experience.