What: UC Davis drama students will demonstrate how teachers may hinder women from succeeding in school. The drama students will rehearse three classroom scenes for a video, showing some of the subtle ways that female students lose confidence and become alienated by their academic experiences. From kindergarten to college, teachers of both sexes may be unintentionally sending hidden messages that discourage women from reaching their academic potential, especially in pursuing careers in math and science, says Robby Henes, director of the UC Davis Center for Women in Engineering. The center is producing the video for use in its gender-equity workshops. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the video aims to dramatize some of the concepts from a new campus booklet called "Creating Gender Equity in Your Teaching." When: 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 4 Where: Bainer Hall, Room 1062 UC Davis Visuals: Three skits, each lasting up to three minutes, will be rehearsed. Each skit will illustrate several concepts. • Scene I: A male teacher uses gender-biased language. He attends to a male student who interrupts others and ignores a female student who raised her hand with a question. Assignments among the students fall along certain stereotypical patterns, such as male leaders and women secretaries. • Scene II: A female teacher favors the more assertive behaviors of some of the male students at the expense of more hesitant behaviors of some of the female students. A male student uses comedy to cope with an assertive female student. • Scene III: Some male students joke about a difficult midterm and blame the test for their poor performance, while some female students blame themselves. A teacher reacts to an idea for enhancing the class originally put forth by a female student by crediting and giving responsibility to a male student. Directions From Sacramento, take the UC Davis exit off I-80. Turn right on And Parking: Old Davis Road. At the stop sign, go straight and follow LaRue Road as it curves left. Turn right at Bioletti Way, and right again on Bainer Hall Drive. Park in lot 44. Media may park for free if the vehicle is clearly marked or if media personnel display a business card on the dashboard.