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=Activity - Discussions on student aspirations= Relative aspirations of boys and girls, is there any difference? A discussion to understand and analyse

Estimated Time
one period

Prerequisites/Instructions, if any
None

Multimedia resources
A short film with interviews from girls and boys in a Mysore village, on what they want to become and what they think they will become.

Udaan TV Serial - on a girl who wanted to be a police officer and became one (real story based). inspiring serial, to see many episodes, visit https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=udaan+serial+doordarshan

Relevant local connections - people, places and materials
In your village/town, which professions have mostly men? Please investigate?

Website interactives/ links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_on_the_Elimination_of_Discrimination_Against_Women http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udaan_%28TV_series%29

Process
Ask students, both boys and girls to write about their aims/dreams/aspirations. Collect the responses and summarise the same. The summary is likely to show a difference in aspirations of boys and girls. Without pointing out any individual, discuss the same and its causes and encourage girls to have ambitions and dreams.

What questions can you ask

 * 1) Are boys and girls aspirations different? Why?
 * 2) Are their biological reasons for such differences? (can give examples of women who have performed well in many spheres)
 * 3) How do we lose both at an individual and a societal level, when girls aspire for lesser than they can

Evaluation – (questions for assessment of the child)
Are there any fields of activity - social and economic that should require difference in access to men and women? If yes, Why?

Question Corner
See questions section

Activity keywords
rural development