Posted on 11/24/2020 10:42:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
An education company producing school textbooks and exam papers has revealed guidelines to "flip" gender stereotypes in its products.
Pearson, which owns exam board Edexcel and is one of the country's biggest education companies, has asked employees to "avoid unconscious bias" by promoting "women and girls in traditionally masculine roles and vice versa".
It says this could include girls dressed as firefighters, astronauts or playing with trucks, and boys watering plants, playing in a pretend kitchen, or performing a dance competition.
"Show women as the business owner, painting the house, wearing the lab coat and fixing the car and men taking children to school, baking the birthday cake for colleagues, taking the meeting minutes and teaching the primary class," the guidance continues.
Developed alongside The Fawcett Society, the company says it is the first to make a commitment to tackle gender bias in its learning materials for children.
Such bias also includes behaviours ascribed to gender, such as "a woman being sensitive" and "a man being assertive", while physical characteristics have been advised to avoid stereotypes.
Pearson says an example of this would be of adding "long eyelashes to an animal to indicate they are female or a bow tie to indicate they are male".
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Idiocy.
Most commercials already do this shit.
Brainwashing young boys.
Parents need to push back - especially fathers.
Communism grows
Yeah well when Testosterone surges, which it MUST in a male’s teen years, all of this #### won’t make a difference.
Well, it might get women hurt because I know gals who took some karate classes or saw too many super heroine movies and now aren’t afraid to walk to their cars late at night alone..etc.
I hate what we have become.
When referring to any person or person please use the gender neutral “Comrade”.
fantasy and wishful thinking = reality
I can understand women wanting to take good paying jobs from men. So, some sense to those portrayals.
But very few men are going to want to replace women as homeakers and in dance recitals.
I like this. “Honey go out and change the oil and clean the gutters and I will throw a Lean Cuisine in the mic for you. Oh and unclog the toilet. Thanks”
I thought they were already doing this.
In real life, most kids will make up their own minds when given a chance to chose. Not everything needs direction or scheduling.
And then women reach their 30s and wonder why the guys that they date are so shallow and uninterested and not capable of most basic manly functions.
a bow tie to indicate they are male”.
Not in my world!
the girls should just carry guns....the great equalizer...
That is not the kind of equality they envision...
This is the same shit they started in the Hillary Clinton/Janet Reno days. It murdered Hollywood. The Chinese love it.
yeah we all hate who we have become so we need to disengage....there are plenty of people of good values, ethics, etc to hang out with....just not the tv or the movies.....
I dunno about that. Just you wait....
Testosterone levels have been dropping like a rock for many years.
Estrogen in the water and food supply are softening males up like never before.
In much of the country, masculinity is frowned upon, if not outright spit upon.
Most transgenders are male->female. Why do you think that might be, eh?
We're already in deep scat, and there's no evidence that it can turn around in time to avoid disaster.
For those who don’t know Pearson pretty much dominates the school textbook business. When I started teaching in the 60s there were several publishers to choose from when picking a text to use. When I retired, there were only a few and even if they had different publisher names at least half were actually Pearson texts.
Check out history textbooks for jr. high or high school students. Flip to WWII and take a look at what you’ll find. Surprisingly, it was blacks and women won the war. Also the Japanese internment was roughly the equivalent of the Holocaust.
Pearson is full of backwards morons.
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