gender inequality

here is my new presentation about role of schools in challenging gender inequality

1. Role of schools in challenging gender inequalities Beena. K

2. Education is a strong mean to bring social change. educational institutions can play a prominent role in achieving gender equality. school is an important agency of formal education. it can initiate social change by its various activities. it can undertake the following measures to bring about gender equality

3. Mixed school must be promoted to develop a healthy relationship between all the genders. this will not only ensure gender equality but will also helpful in developing respect for the other gender in future 1.Mixed school

4. 2.Infrastructure School should provide equal infrastructural facilities to all the students without doing any discrimination based on the gender. special attention must be given for students with special needs .

5. 3.Admission to all gender School should take care of giving admission to the students of all categories without considering any differences based on caste or gender. As part of inclusive policy school can take initiatives to accommodate all types of learners including transgender .

6. 4.Providing textbooks Care must be taken to provide textbooks to all the students equally without considering their gender

7. 5. scholarships Scholarship must be provided to the needful without considering their gender, caste, or their high status in the society. their economical background can e considered.

8. 6. Sports equipments No discrimination should be there in distributing or making available of the sports equipments to the students. There is a practice of making available of equipments for boys at a large variety, quantity where as less or no equipments for girls. all sports equipments must be provided to all the students based on their taste and interest but not based on gender.

9. 7. School programs Equal participation must be given to all the genders in all the activities in the schools. equal responsibility like leadership must be given to all the genders in school programs. there is a trend of singing prayer song in the morning assembly only by girls but not by boys. This trend can be changed as there are boys also with good capability of singing. Most of the school pupil leader will be boys in all most all the mixed schools. T his can be analyzed .

10. 8. Promote education for girls in rural and remote areas In most of the remote and rural parts of our nation, there is a huge restriction for girl children to go to school. This must be taken up as serious issue and steps must be taken to make them accessible to education. Schools can be directly approach parents of such areas and make them aware of need of educating their girl children at home.

11. 9. Awareness programs School can arrange awareness programs for teachers, students as well as for the parents on gender equality and also for the need of educating female children .

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