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OBJECTIVES

  • to raise awareness of gender stereotyping in our thinking;

REQUIREMENTS

  • Time: 40 minutes
  • tools for writing
  • flip-chart, markers
  • video-projector

DESCRIPTION

  1. The trainer reads out the following list of words and asks for hands up if the participant thinks it’s a girl thing and no hand up if the participant thinks it’s a boy thing or vice versa.
 

Rescuing

Dancing

Teacher

Cooking

Pink

Doctor

Nurse

Cars

A six pack

Diet drinks

 

 

Scientist

Blue

Cleaning

Lawyer

Engineer

Set of spanners

Computer programmer

Red

Glitter

Mathematician

Burping and Farting

  

  1. Once the trainer has read through the whole list, he/she asks the following questions written on the flip-chart:
    • Why do you think so many of you agreed on the associations?
    • Where do these ideas come from?
    • Is it true that these are just girls or boys things?
    • Where are these answers coming from?

 

  1. The trainer shows one or both of these clips:

Inspiring The Future - Redraw The Balance

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv8VZVP5csA)

and/or

Children Talking about Gender Roles

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv8VZVP5csA)  

 

DISCUSSION TOPICS (DEBREIFING AND EVALUATION)

  • How many of us actually fit totally or at all into these gender roles?
  • If we do, do you think it can be because we’ve had those ideas drummed into our heads from an early age?
  • What does this activity teaches us about gender roles?

Facilitator tips: It could be helpful to do some positive affirmations to support participants’ resilience and confidence to resist stereotypes, for example “it’s great that nowadays more and more women are part of the army”.

Method adapted from Robert Gordon University Challenging Gender Stereotype Lesson Plans)

https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/pluginfile.php/272873/mod_resource/content/1/Classroom%20Activities%20on%20gender%20stereotypes%20and%20equality.pdf

 

 


 

This project was co-financed by the ERASMUS+ programme of the European Commission  

Co-founded by the Eramsus+ Programme of the European Union

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