Videos Promoting Gender Equality

 

1. INSPIRING THE FUTURE

             

PART 1: PRE-WATCHING

1. Classify these jobs according to whether you think they are done predominantly by male or female workers.

President - Nurse - Doctor - Secretary - Taxi driver - Teacher - Model - Shop assistant - Lawyer - Company CEO* - Hairdresser - Flight attendant - Bartender* - Electrician - Basketball player

*Company CEO (=Chief Executive Officer): the most senior person manager in a company who has more authority than anyone else and is responsible for its success.

*Bartender: someone whose jobs is to serve drinks in a bar.

FEMALE JOBS	MALE JOBS

2. Now compare your answers with a partner. Did you agree with your partner in the classification? What similarities and differences were there in your answers?

3. What kind of jobs are typically associated with women? Which are typically associated with men?

4. Can you think of how many people you know with the jobs above? How many are men? How many are women? Count them and compare your answers with your partner.

  

PART 2: POST-WATCHING DISCUSSION

5. Do most of the children in the video draw male or female firefighters, pilots, and surgeons? Why do you think that is?

6. What is the children’s reaction when they realize the actual firefighter, pilot, and surgeon are women?

7. Are these three jobs typically associated with men or with women?

8. Do you know any female firefighters, pilots or surgeons?

9. How do you think the experience in the video influenced the boys and girls who appeared in it?

2. LIKE A GIRL

                     

PART 1: PRE-WATCHING

1. Is “run like a man” positively or negatively connotated? What about “run like a girl”?

2. What adjectives or expressions are typically associated with men? And to women? For example, “boys don’t cry”, " crying is for girls", women stay home with their children".

PART 2: POST-WATCHING DISCUSSION

3. Why do the girls in the video react differently from the rest of the people when asked to run like a girl, fight like a girl and throw like a girl?

4. Have you ever heard any comments similar to “you run like a girl”? How did you feel when you heard them?

5. What could you do or say if you hear them again?

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3. GIRL TOYS VS BOY TOYS  

              

PART 1: PRE-WATCHING

1. What were your favourite toys as a kid?

2. What are toys typically associated to boys? And to girls?

3. When choosing a present, would you give a baby boy a doll? Why or why not?

4. Would you give a Lego set to a baby girl? Why or why not?

PART 2: POST-WATCHING DISCUSSION

5. What toys do the people give to the boy? And to the girl?

6. How do they react that the baby was the opposite gender?

7. Did you expect the video to end like it did?

8. What did you learn from the video? What message do you think it was trying to convey?