RIESI, Administrators
3,664
edits
Changes
From Karnataka Open Educational Resources
Sexism in education and amongst teachers (view source)
Revision as of 14:25, 8 November 2022
, 14:25, 8 November 2022→What is sexism? What is a sexist story or joke?
= What is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism sexism]? What is a sexist story or joke? =
= What is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism sexism]? What is a sexist story or joke? =
=== Background ===
This page got created when the author was member of a teachers WhatsApp group where teachers shared sexist stories and quotes and jokes. They felt that it was acceptable behaviour and confused sexism with sex. It is absolutely important that teachers have ZERO TOLERANCE FOR SEXISM. Sexist teachers believe men and women are different in nature and have different roles in society. Consequently, they are likely to discriminate between boy and girl students in their own classrooms and act in gender unjust ways. They may explicitly assign different roles/activities to boys and girls (like assigning physically strenous activities to boys and 'homely/domestic' activities to girls). Such gender stereotyping will certainly affect the aspirations and self esteem of girl students and must be completely avoided by teachers
=== What is a sexist story ===
'''A sexist story or joke is one which is based on a belief that men and women are different, they have different characters/traits/behaviors and act divergently.'''
'''A sexist story or joke is one which is based on a belief that men and women are different, they have different characters/traits/behaviors and act divergently.'''
