Tool "Expectations of boys and girls"

Language: English

Project Featuring This Tool: Peers without Frontiers

Themes:Gender and Sexuality

Overview: This workshop is designed to discuss gender roles in a challenging format. It features discussion of gender roles as they are and how they have changed over time, to show that they are socially constructed.

Objective: To reflect on gender and gender inequality in the participants’ daily life and in their groups

Time 60 minutes
Approximate number of participants 10-20
Age 10-15
Date published 3 Feb 2011, 16:56

Materials

Material and room:

  • Flipchart paper
  • A4 paper
  • Pens and pencils
  • Markers
  • Old and new magazine images
  • Scissors
  • Glue

Step-by-step instructions

1.Split the group into groups of 5. Half the groups makes mind-maps of ‘what is expected of boys’; the other groups of ‘what is expected of girls’. They come back together and present their ideas to the others. The group can discuss if they agree with what has been said. 2.Introduce the term ‘stereotype’. Ask what is expected of girls or boys because of stereotypes. (25 minutes) 3.Gather some images from old and new magazines. Make large posters which have ‘I agree with’ and ‘I disagree with’ on them. Ask the participants to find images from the magazine articles or pictures they agree or disagree with in regard to how men and women are shown. Ask the participants to cut them out and stick them on the posters.

Debriefing

  • Why did you choose the images you chose?
  • How have the images of women and men changed over time?
  • Do you think any of the images are accurate?
  • Where do these images come from?
  • Is gender something that is simply in our genes’?
  • How does society affect our gender?

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