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Teachers can take measures to stop gender inequalities in the classroom practices. Care must be
taken to avoid conscious or unconscious practices that lead to the issue of gender biases. lets
discuss in detail.
Teachers should make sure that all the students get seating arrangements as per their need
irrespective of their gender or caste or religion etc. sometimes special need will arise for physically
challenged students. Teacher should make necessary steps for helping them also irrespective of their
gender.
Care must be taken to ensure equal participation of boys and girls in all the classroom activities.
There should not be any discrimination based on gender in participating in the discussions or
It’s the responsibility of the teacher to make sure that opportunities are provided to all the students
irrespective of their gender in all the classroom activities. There should not be shown any gender
doubts etc.
a practice seen in most of the mixed schools that the teachers will always assign class leader as a
boy but not a girl. Knowingly or unknowingly the teacher will ask a boy to lead a discussion but not
a girl. Sometimes, teacher will tend to call out the names of boys for taking some responsibilities
but not girls. This may happens unconsciously but leads to gender bias. Care must be taken in this
Teachers should ensure that all the learning materials are distributed to all the students equally
Awareness programs on ‘health’ should be organized considering both the gender. It should not give
much importance to any of the gender. Issues, measures related to the health of both the gender
While organizing awareness programs on ‘sex education’ also, there must be initiatives to provide
knowledge to both the gender. Separate sessions and combined sessions may be conducted at
is a trend seen that citing names of men as examples in the classroom discussions but not
To ensure gender equality teacher can use moral stories on the importance of mutual respect
between men and women in the classrooms. This will help in inculcating values on gender equality
Teacher can provide awareness on importance and need for gender equality for a better society by
Inspirational videos and films depicting the need and importance of gender equality for the
improvement of the society can be shown in the classroom during leisure time or at some occasions.
REFERENCES
Ballantine, J.H., and Spade,J.Z. (2014). Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to
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Bhatttachargee., and Nandini. (1999). Women’s Education and Social Development. Kanishka.
New Delhi.
Constance, P. (1989). Feminism, Psychoanalysis and the study of Popular Culture. Routledge.
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