Column One: Curriculum

School driver-education programs foster sexist stereotypes of women, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has concluded.

Mimi Orner, a lecturer in women's studies and educational-policy studies, has studied 75 films, textbooks, and pamphlets produced for driver-education programs over the past 50 years.

Overwhelmingly, she found, the drivers depicted in those materials are white males. The textbooks often picture a woman, however, when describing the dangers...