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Students will interact in gender—sensitive ways with one another.

5. Students will examine the nature of gender challenges and gaps
across different parts of the world.

6. Students will develop the reflective capacity to understand gendered
roles in society and identify the role they want to play in bridging
the gender divide.

Overview

In this unit students are introduced to the various dimensions of gender
inequality across the world. Students closely examine SDG 5 and its as—
sociated targets and measures. Links are drawn to other units in which
students were introduced to women change makers who made a differ—
ence in the different spheres of human development. Through the use of
interactive maps and audiovisual materials, students examine trends in the
gender gaps across the world. Through the use of literature, students chal—
lenge some of their own existing assumptions about the roles of men and
women in society and become more reflective and aware of the difference
they can make in challenging some of the existing preconceived roles and
notions.

Activity 7.6.1
Introducing Gender Inequality and SDG 5
Students interact with peers in different parts of the world to closely

examine

1. the chores children in their respective countries do at home

2. the jobs that only men or only women perform and the jobs that
both genders perform

3. whether the country has a history of women political leaders

4. the ratio of the genders in the country.

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