1. How will you disrupt gender inequality at school? Explain, why this technique?
To disrupt gender inequality in schools teachers and administrators must first recognize that there is a problem. This could be accomplished through consciousness awareness programs designed specifically for public school teachers. The problems associated with gender bias may not start until middle school but it is prevalent throughout high school too. That problem is that female students often feel shy around male students because of gender norms taught by family and society. Female students may be afraid they will be ridiculed or thought less of if they are assertive in the classroom. Male students then dominate the classroom, raising their hands more frequently to answer questions and volunteer to read their work aloud. Teachers may either consciously or unconsciously come to rely on male students and call on them more often. Then females get called on less often. This just makes the feelings that the female students have about speaking up even worse. The result is gender bias in schools.
To combat this type of gender bias from occurring, teachers must be taught to call on the females in the class and require them to read aloud and participate verbally as much as the males in the class. Some teachers may already be doing this because gender inequality has been an issue for a long time. Those that are not purposely trying to eliminate gender bias from their classrooms should take classes in how to effectively accomplish that. In fact, it should be required for all K through 12 teachers. There is no reason why eliminating gender bias cannot start as young as kindergarten. The younger kids start learning by example not to use gender as a way to categorize or objectify others, the better it will be for society.
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