Curriculum
Is Gender Equality (GE) specifically addressed and explored in subject areas and across the curriculum?
Would you like it to be?
Initial Steps
- You could begin with informal discussions amongst some staff about gender stereotypes in resources. Why not try to develop and carry out a simple questionnaire?
- Involve staff in collecting information about where GE is explicitly being taught and where the gaps are. You could also gather students’ opinions.
- Map extra-curricular provision, including Work Experience (where appropriate). Gather data to identify what clubs there are and if there is a gender imbalance in clubs/extra-curricular activities. Involve colleagues and students in reviewing how these extra-curricular activities are run and promoted.
Call to action
Are there ways your school address issues of GE in subject provision and how they relate to careers?
Are teachers, extra-curricular activity providers and students aware of the perceptions and/or assumptions of gender-stereotyped choices when choosing subjects/schools/further education or extra-curricular activities?
Are there any good examples that you could share?

Curriculum Links
Piece of Cake
Curriculum
Target age group8+ yrs / group size 10-25
Gender equality concepts
equality of opportunity, process and outcome
Guess the job
Curriculum
Target age group8-12 yrs / group size 6-20
Gender equality concepts
Gender and occupations, stereotypes
My gender is my business
Curriculum, Textbooks/resources
Target age group13-18
Making Subject Choices
Curriculum
Gender equality concepts
Gender stereotyping – gender equity - cultural norms – unconscious bias
Where have all the women inventors gone?
Curriculum, Textbooks/resources
Target age group10-13
Gender equality concepts
Discrimination based on gender in science, the absence of female figures in textbooks, gender, gender stereotypes and prejudices, ‘herstories’, “feminative”.
Women’s Rights
Career guidance, Curriculum
Target age group11-18
Gender equality concepts
Rights, Equality
This Lesson Plan looks at how men and women are treated differently in many countries and cultures and at how far women’s rights and equality legislation are actually leading to greater equality between men and women.
Ideas into Action
Digital platform “500 Queer Scientists”
Attitudes & Relationships, Communities, Curriculum, Leadership, Physical Environment
Target age groupPrimary/Secondary Education
Type of materialWebsite
Gender in school textbooks
Curriculum
Target age groupTeachers, school management, education system supervisors
Type of materialText (study report)
Girls Soccer Interschool Tournament
Curriculum
Target age groupStudents and teachers
Type of materialEvent
Literary Equality – femininity and masculinity in school in school reading
Curriculum
Target age groupClass, teacher
Type of materialText (report, scenarios)
A multimedia digital platform “This is not a feminist project”
Attitudes & Relationships, Communities, Curriculum, Leadership
Target age groupPrimary/Secondary Education
Type of materialWebsite
Pupil Voice and Gender Equality
Curriculum, Explicit Teaching, Leadership, Students & Learning
Target age groupPrimary 3-11
Type of materialText - narrative
Youth in Action for Equality (Vocational School for Commerce and Trade Bjelovar)
Attitudes & Relationships, CM Development, Content, Curriculum, Extra-curricular, Gender-based violence, Hidden curriculum, Language & communication, Leadership, Peer socialisation, Physical Environment
Type of materialText, video, photo story