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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they don’t need us. They only need the young minds full of mush.
They can easily pied piper and lead the children into oblivion. Next mom and dad will be four letter words.
all the men I see almost daily being led and bossed around by their women in supermarkets or where ever, if this isnt bad enough, I can only imagine the generstions to follow tis additional crap...
I was NEVER the type to do it, but anymore, I totally joined the just “Hit it and Quit it” crowd... hell I am even reluctant to hold a door open anymore for them...
“...They only need the young minds full of mush...”
Will really suck to be “they” when American Men decide to get in their “their” faces and put things right...
By any means necessary.
(s)oh pajama boy would like to reschedule the revolution, he has to take his dog to counseling because it is suffering patriarchy disorder.(/s)
Indeed! LoL!
repeal the 19th ...
Only problem is that describes a very large percentage of females nowadays. Females who say they find men shallow are just jealous at the fact that men have higher standards regarding a female's sexual past when it comes to matrimony.
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