As Banks (1995) has argued, the various White, European paradigms that
dominate American
history and culture are powerful and deeply entrenched in the U.S. social
studies curriculum.
If you
study the
history of women and spending trends you will notice that women have always been the
dominate spenders, before women independence they spent the majority of the man's pay checks on the house, the car, the remodeling, the stove, the washer / dryer combo, the bedroom set, the bed, the couch, the dining room table, i would bet money that the woman was the driving force in each discussion, because in most cases the men decide if it works why fix it, and when translated to art, less men will look at a bare wall and decide that it needs art covering it.