As we know, school and classroom is one of those places where a human establish his main pillars of attitude and character development. What he will be in future depends on what we teach him in present. So if we demand a future with gender equality, we have to make it present for the students.
First, we need an open environment classroom. Scientific research says that a child can discriminate between physical differences between a girl and a boy, at about 2-3 years and by the age of 4,they have a stable sense of their identity. And during this time they learn their primary lessons like what a girl do and what a boy do. And this is the same time, when we’re first attending our primary school or kindergarten. So it’s a very necessary for classroom to reflect gender equality. A open environment classroom, means there’ll be no different roles, different sitting zones , different remarks for boy and girls.Means, there’ll be no gender stereotypes at all.
Classroom should be such a place where you can leave all kinds of stereotypes at the door and enjoy.
Secondly, teachers and other peers should yse inclusive language to perform any task. Like there’ll be no ‘he /she’, it should be ‘you guys’.
Again, no discrimination in subjects. Yes, it’s unfortunate that we find less women towards science and technology. It is an issue, which can be treated in primary school. Girls should be encouraged to grow with science too and it shouldn’t be defined as ‘not girls things’ ever.
Whether it’s a political debate or any scientific project, there has to be equal participation allowed for both boys and girls.
Grouping children in the basis of their gender, should be avoided. While doing projects or having informative documentary, there should be always a equally distributed gender perception, even including LGBTQ community.
In primary school or kindergarten, they can arrange common playing area, common toys and books to have.
Often it’s seen that female reach out to only female, consciously or subconsciously. It can be altered with assigning a bench or a desk, thus they can get chance to meet their opposite gender and that certain gap between them should be decreased.
Whether it’s a girls physical issue or boys, we should treat our children same and share between both of them in the correct time. Everyone should be aware about the cause and precautions. Which will lead to making a better understanding family in future.
Maybe many of these were behind our social norms at some age, but it just give birth to an increasing graph of gender discrimination. So, if we update the basic, maybe we can update the future with ease.