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This paper discusses the content and delivery of education and how it
can reflect and reproduce gender inequalities. The paper discusses how
girls’ and boys’ learning and interaction with each other, and the
teacher, are influenced by ways of teaching, the content of the
curriculum, and relations within the classroom.
Key recommendations for changes needed to ensure that education
provision will promote gender equality include:
- Governments and non-state providers should:
- ensure that curriculum development involves consultation at all
levels of society about gender equality
- develop and implement government-agreed standards for quality and
equality in education
- ensure that there are strong legal measures to outlaw sexual
violence and harassment in school, with clear procedures for dealing
with abuse, which are widely communicated
- Headteachers and teachers should:
- inform themselves about existing policy for gender equality
- develop school-level policies for gender equitable approaches to
teaching and learning
- move beyond gender stereotypes and investigate the schools’ and
teachers’ own values and culture and aspirations for gender
equality
- Parents and community members should:
- take an active interest in their children’s learning and ensure
that the school learning environment is healthy and safe
- play an active part in the management of the education resources
to ensure they are used for the benefit of both girls and boys
equitably.
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