Nursery World - Inclusion - Free to choose

How can settings ensure that boys and girls are given equal and unbiased opportunity to take part in all activities? Caroline Vollans reports on the Gender Action approach

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We have come a long way in terms of the diversity of career opportunities for both girls and boys in the past 30 years, but the job is not yet done. Despite all that has been achieved in challenging male and female stereotyping, it is well-documented that employment remains highly gendered. Women are hugely under-represented in STEM employment – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – and these industries have great difficulty in their recruitment. Similarly, men are vastly under-represented in traditionally female areas of employment – nursing, early years education and care work.

GENDERING OF BRAINS

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