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Sadly, among the various factors creating inequality among the genders, schools and colleges play an important role in evolving the mindset of the people. Change is a lengthy process which is not possible overnight or over a day. To bring a change among the prevailing mindset of people, one needs to be patient and focus upon every small thing that can be helpful in bringing a change, a school plays an important role in changing a society, to bring gender equality among students schools need to work hard upon that matter, some measures they could take are;
1. SCHOOL UNIFORMS
the school uniforms of both boys and girls could play an important role in bringing gender equality, it is not fair when boys have been alloted with pants and girls with the skirts, both girls and boys could be wearing pants as a sign of equality.
2. SPORTS ACTIVITIES
Alot of schools have a boys team for a certain sport but not the one for girls, everyone should be encouraged to join sports be it a girl or a boy and it should be a school’s responsibility to equalate among sports.
3. MENSTRUAL/SEX EDUCATION
Every school/college should have regular classes for sex education in order to educate children about sex. Many schools do not include boys while teaching about menstruation, only girls are taught about the menstrual cycle. Boys and girls both should be educated upon the menstrual cycle of girls, so that menstruation would not be talked as a big deal. And would be treated as a general life process.
There could be many more measures that could be taken by schools in order to bring equality among students