A growing body of literature discusses the different learning and communicating styles of men and women After briefly reviewing this literature, the paper discusses a class in which women students and their female instructor employed nontraditional methods to study planning and public policy issues of significance to their lives as women The final assignment of that class, to write a public policy fairy tale, is the main focus of the discussion. The fairy tales revealed that the main issue for women in the class was the creation of a "safe" society in which women could claim their social, economic, and psychological places.
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