Sexism in schools

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www.theguardian.com/education/2019/nov/12/clean-five-schools-of-sexism-teachers-pupils-gender-equality

Not sure how to make this clicky but I thought it was interesting, perhaps something positive to promote in schools?

www.theguardian.com/education/2019/nov/12/clean-five-schools-of-sexism-teachers-pupils-gender-equality

If you paste your link into a subsequent post it will be clicky. Don't know why they aren't clicky in opening posts.

Thank you x

Seems like an excellent approach to teaching children to get away from sexist stereotypes. I’m just wondering how it’s going to work with the lgbT training that is being put into schools, since stereotypes are their main evidence of boys are girls if they like ‘gendered’ stereotypical things, such as dolls, etc?

It's very good - except that this approach ought to be the norm by now.

I might send it to my kids' headteacher

That's a really good article. Hope more schools do this.

It would be an excellent suggestion to send to schools.

One of the sentences quoted in the article was
"I need a big strong boy to help me move this”.

It made me laugh. It was a similar sentence to this at school i.e.
"Now then boys, move the benches" (while the girls were left to twiddle their thumbs..) that turned me into a feminist. I was 5 at the time.

I've mentioned this many times before, but DD was outraged when they did a 'what do you want to be when you grow up' lesson in yr 1 and the teacher stated that girls couldn't be builders. (DD meant 'person who designs and builds things', not a hoddie, not that that makes a difference to the wrongness of the teacher)

What an excellent initiative! I hope they receive more funding so it can be tried in more schools around the UK.

These young boys have grasped the concept way better than any of the gender identify believers. :)

Her friend Parsa, 11, is growing his hair long for charity. “Outside of school, people have made unkind remarks. But I brush it off because of what I’ve learned at school. Although I might look like a girl to them, I know there’s no reason why I shouldn’t have long hair.” He wants to be an astrophysicist.

John, aged 10, wears make-up sometimes and wants to become a dancer. Over the past year, he has gained confidence to be himself, he says. “Gender shouldn’t affect your life in any way. There shouldn’t be any boundaries for women or men. We should be able to do what we want, as equals.”

So glad to see boys understanding that enjoying having long hair or wearing make-up doesn't make them a girl!

Is anyone from SSA on here? I'm assuming they know about it?

now have the confidence to speak out about gender inequality, the report – due for publication tomorrow – says
I remember having a class visit the local library for an author visit. He addressed them as 'guys' and all the girls complained, poor bloke was mortified. This was about 30 years ago.
Why isn't this already embedded in all schools?