Building Gender Equality For Young People
Update: ‘Building Gender Equality For Young People’ is now available as of 15 May 2023. You can access this resource here. To read more about the launch of this resource, please reference our press release.
White Ribbon UK will publish a comprehensive new learning resource in May.
The learning resource has been developed by expert practitioners, in partnership with schools, to give education providers the knowledge and tools to introduce the concept of gender and inequality to their students in a way that is safe and meaningful.
White Ribbon UK envisions a gender-equal society in which all women and girls are empowered, and free from fear, to live the lives they want to lead. To achieve this, boys and girls must have the tools to understand and recognise oppression and inequality and make choices that lead to mutual respect, healthy bodies and minds, and greater inclusivity.
The current RSHE curriculum supports the introduction of this. Education settings are vital for preventing and intervening early to stop violence against women and girls.
The White Ribbon UK learning resource will ensure that girls and boys can learn in a child-centred and age appropriate, gender-aware and protective learning environment. This requires an approach that encompasses the whole school and community, to break down existing gender norms, stereotypes and expectations, including around constructions of masculinity and femininity and how negative traits enable violence against women and girls. The resource provides education practitioners with all learning and guidance required to deliver the sessions, in fitting with the current RSHE curriculum.
On 13th March, we wrote to the Department of Education about the importance of the inclusion of education within the RSHE curriculum that focuses on the prevention of harmful attitudes and behaviours that lead to gender inequality.
We are looking forward to meeting with the Department of Education to develop this.