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News and Events => Opinions & Editorials => Topic started by: Natasha on June 28, 2011, 04:51:09 PM

Title: Swedish pre-school fights gender bias
Post by: Natasha on June 28, 2011, 04:51:09 PM
Swedish pre-school fights gender bias

http://feministing.com/2011/06/28/swedish-pre-school-fights-gender-bias/ (http://feministing.com/2011/06/28/swedish-pre-school-fights-gender-bias/)
6/28/11
By spiffy-mcbang

I'm not sure about the whole removal of gender pronouns. They don't appear to be putting transgender or genderqueer concepts into the program (that'd probably be a bit complicated for three-year-olds), so it seems like something that might backfire or at least limit the efficacy of the overall lessons they're trying to teach.  The idea is to promote equality; maybe there's some study somewhere to refute this, but I would think teaching "boys and girls are inherently equal" would be more likely to hold going forward than "there are no boys or girls, just people."