Female Facts & Quotes

• “By the time they reach secondary school children often have entrenched views about gender norms. It is therefore important that children are educated about gender equality… in primary school.” --The Women and Equalities Parliamentary Committee (2016^[1])
• 31% of books for children have a central female character^[2] (MinneTESOL Journal 2018),
• 7% of UK-published books (2017-2019) contain BAME characters (University of Manchester, 2021^[3])
• 33% of teaching staff believe diversity is not reflected in education and 69% of primary school teachers want more diverse and representative texts (Pearson, 2020^[4]).
• Addressing gender bias is a focus of UN SDGs (4, 5 & 10), the UK Government^[5] and Ofsted^[6].
• 87% of EdTech CEOs are male, although the teaching industry is predominantly female^[7].
• Gender scripts are frequently written in to EdTech tools^[8] which often feature a hidden gender curriculum^[9].
• 53% of parents report spending more money on education related products and services post-COVID (Direct Line, 2021^[10]).
• 66% of teachers say that recent political movements have made them reevaluate what they teach (Pearson, 2020^[11]).
• "men remain over-represented in almost all positions of power & decision-making in the UK" --British Council
• 'The goal of the movement was not to simply hold women leaders up as heroines or societal anomalies, to paraphrase the 18th-century feminist author and activist Mary Wollstonecraft; its advocates wanted women and gender to be treated as more than “sidebar history.” Though showcasing women’s stories on their own is important, women’s-history pioneers also saw unearthing and integrating women’s stories as a gateway to better understand the laws, institutions, systems, and movements that are most familiar to Americans—and to correct and complicate them.'
• Male characters over represented in children’s lit | Not yet achieved gender parity | Not just as simple as characters^[12]
• Gender representation in textbooks^[13]
• Sex role socialization^[14]
• Good summary: https://inkspire.org/post/gender-based-discrimination-in-the-hidden-curriculum/-MHTBXq83oNmLLfIkBkR