Communities
Does your school involve families and the local community when addressing GE?
Initial Steps
- Why not start by researching family engagement on GE issues? Has there been any engagement? What was done?
- Encourage/start discussions with colleagues on how to deal with parents’ gender ideas, stereotypes etc.
- Try to think of ways to involve students to discuss issues relating to GE in the wider community in a safe and sensitive manner.
Call to action
Do you have any ideas/examples of good practice on family/community engagement on GE issues, which you can share?

Curriculum Links
FLATLAND: Mathematical fiction on gender stereotypes
Communities
Target age group9-12 years old (primary school)
Gender equality concepts
Discuss gender roles and stereotypes as a social construction in an interdisciplinary framework using the mathematical fiction of Flatland
Robotics and the Gender Problem
Attitudes & Relationships, Communities
Target age group9-12 years old (primary school)
Gender equality concepts
hybrid gender identity, stereotypes, subject choices, mathematics, size and number, infinity, probability
Ideas into Action
Digital platform “500 Queer Scientists”
Attitudes & Relationships, Communities, Curriculum, Leadership, Physical Environment
Target age groupPrimary/Secondary Education
Type of materialWebsite
A case study from Italy: involving families and the wider school community for an entire year in gender equality issues
Communities
A multimedia digital platform “This is not a feminist project”
Attitudes & Relationships, Communities, Curriculum, Leadership
Target age groupPrimary/Secondary Education
Type of materialWebsite
Rainbow Friday
Attitudes & Relationships, Communities
Target age groupThe school community (students, teachers, school management)
Type of materialEvent