Let’s take the gender neural education as an example: gender neutral education means to teach boys and girls without any differences according to their gender. For instance, parents who have a son and a daughter can buy dolls, cars, princess dresses, superheroes costumes for both of them. The consequences could be that their son prefer to play with the doll than their daughter. It’s not the only thing that parents can do to give a gender-neutral education, they can also talk with their children about domestic tasks, every member of the family should take part equally in domestic tasks. Their children will understand quickly that men can also clean, cook and care.
However, the school system still reproduces a lot of gender stereotypes and doesn’t really help to fight against gender inequalities. Boys take up all the space in the playground and don’t accept that girls play with them. At school, boys are more aggressive and are used to fight to play while girls are more used to play doctor or teacher… Schools could at least split the playground equally so the girls are not run over by the boys and can have their own space. Boys and girls should learn how to play, talk, discuss together.
The society doesn’t let parents so easily to give the education they want to give to their children. From the youngest age, children are influenced by the society, girls should be calm, discreet while boys should show their knowledge, their strength… As a result, gender neutral education represents more a dream than reality…