For Black History Month, Georgina Phillips, School Recruitment and Relationships Officer for Gender Action, has written an introduction to the concept of intersectionality.
“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” - Audre Lorde
Read MoreCheck out our great new video on how to challenge gender stereotypes in nurseries, schools and colleges.
We asked the facilitators at our launch event to tell us where they would tell teachers to start in tackling stereotypes in their setting and this is what they said.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to announce an exciting prize draw for Supporter schools who teach Key Stages 3, 4 or 5, thanks to Fearless Futures. If you have registered as a Supporter by Friday 31 May, your school can be entered into a prize draw to win places on a CPD course. This exciting, interactive 2-hour workshop from Fearless Futures, is designed “to support teachers and school leaders to grow their equalities cognisance and capability”.
Read MoreAnnahita de la Mare is an independent children’s book author, creating naturally inclusive picture books with inspiring female lead characters. She is also an advocate for the Gender Equality Collective.
A few years ago, the Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls team released a video ahead of their book release, showing a girl and her mother in front of a bookcase, seeking out children’s books with speaking female characters who aspired to more than marrying a prince…
Read MoreListen to CEO of London Early Years Foundation June O’Sullivan MBE discuss why she thinks challenging gender stereotypes in the early years is so important and why your nursery should sign up to Gender Action.
Read MoreCheck out our YouTube channel!
As well as uploading our own videos, such as this one by Professor Becky Francis, we are also collating useful videos into playlists.
This includes playlists on some of our focus areas…
Read MoreSarah is a co-founder at TogetherEqual.com, who produce conversation cards which challenge social stereotypes. The cards raise money for charities while having a social impact through conversation. Follow Sarah and Together Equal @betogetherequal @sarahairdmash.
Read MoreProfessor Becky Francis is an expert on inequalities in education and is currently the Director of the UCL Institute of Education, one of our founding partners. She was one of Tes' 10 most influential people in the world of education in 2018. Following her keynote speech at our launch, Professor Francis spoke to us about inequalities in education and the power of Gender Action.
Read MoreWe have written a piece for PACEY - the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years - about how Gender Action can work in early years settings, making reference to our focus areas and Glyn Hawke’s blog for us.
You can read our article here.
Read MoreMegan Perryman is a teacher in Hackney with a background in managing projects for the public and not-for-profit sectors. She is a co-founder of Let Toys Be Toys, a campaign group that challenges gender stereotypes in childhood. Since the campaign began, fifteen major UK retailers have stopped signposting toys specifically for boys or girls and eleven children’s publishers have agreed to stop marketing books explicitly to boys or girls.
An afternoon lesson in Year One and we’re acting out Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I invite the children, one row at a time, to stand at the front of the class and act out each section of the story…
Read MoreIf you like Gender Action content, following us on Twitter is the most effective way to stay up to date. Our Twitter is also a great place to find other people and organisations interested in challenging gender stereotypes.
We post every weekday and as well as engaging with current news and our followers, we also post some content regularly.
Read MoreThis event will be held on Thursday 9 May from 1630-1830 at the Institute of Physics, 37 Caledonian Road, London, N1 9BU.
This session gives you the opportunity to discuss and improve your Initiator plans, before the 2019 deadline on Friday 24 May.
You will be able to meet with the Gender Action team who will be assessing the plans, as well as Helen Griffin from the Development Education Centre South Yorkshire (DECSY), author of Gender Equality in Primary Schools: A Guide for Teachers.
Read MoreAt Rye Oak, our journey began by examining our role as practitioners in either challenging or reinforcing gender stereotypes. In the initial stage, we unpicked our training and the ‘assumptions’ that had become 'fact' in our daily practice. We shared stories we had heard over the years, particularly around boys and writing, which reinforced the assumption of innate biological differences between boys and girls. These stories included hearing that…
Read MoreWe are thrilled to announce the winner of our prize draw for Supporter schools who teach Key Stage 2, thanks to educational publishers, Collins. The winner is….
The prize was to win a visit from Lisa Rajan, author of the Tara Binns books. This new series, within whole-school reading programme Collins Big Cat, explores STEM careers with a female protagonist.
Read MoreI can’t believe it has been nearly two months since we launched Gender Action with teachers at City Hall. The event was exciting, not only as we got to hear from Professor Becky Francis, and educators and activists on our panel and leading our workshops, but also because we had such quality conversations with teachers and practitioners, from nurseries up to colleges. This was an enriching experience, and confirmed the need for Gender Action…
Read MoreGender Action were kindly invited to #WomenEd’s unconference at Regent High School in London., the day after International Women’s Day 2019. Vivienne Porritt, National Lead for #WomenEd spoke at our launch event in February and we were excited to attend a#WomenEd event in return. There were over 300 educators present as well as a series of facilitators conducting workshops throughout the day.
Read MoreWe were delighted to run a workshop for primary school teachers at the Gender Action launch event last month, addressing gendered language in schools, why it matters and strategies for dealing with it. We chose to address language as language runs through the heart of children’s learning about the world and – intended or otherwise – conveys profound and lasting messages to children about how they should look and behave, what they should aspire to, what and who they should play with.
Read MoreOn 1 March 2019, Gender Action was invited to participate at a training event for teachers from Islington Council at City and Islington College. This was a great opportunity to meet teachers interested in gender equality work, as well as other organisations in Islington working in similar fields.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to announce an exciting prize draw for Supporter schools who teach Key Stage 2, thanks to educational publishers, Collins. If you have registered as a Supporter and submit you Initiator plan by Friday 29 March 2019, your school can be entered into a prize draw to win a visit from Lisa Rajan, author of the Tara Binns books. This new series, within whole-school reading programme Collins Big Cat, explores STEM careers with a female protagonist.
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago, my colleague Esther Mander and I delivered a session as part of the Gender Action launch in London. It was fantastic to meet teachers who are so passionate and committed to achieving gender equality for young people.
In our session, we focused on how to start approaching gender imbalance in schools through using data. Although this session was originally designed for secondary school staff, there were some key messages which were useful for early years and primary staff which I thought I would share with you through this blog post.
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