An Early Educational Approach to Gender Inequalities

Susana Leah de las Nieves Stoner

(Department of Didáctica y Organización Escolar, Malaga University, Spain)

Abstract: This presentation is going to make an approach to the concept of gender, in order to go within its aspects of gender roles which come into play at an early age. With this work, we pretend to select sketches from their first experiences with the objective of making visible the way in which our gender relations begin to forge at an early age. Our pretensions are to visibilize the invisible threads which constrain all of our relations. We want our society to make progress towards equality. 

It starts by analyzing the current setting of gender, the concept of gender, and early experiences from our children, related to the topic and it finishes with conclusions about the importance of working gender starting in the person, from his own needs to be able to break our mental squemes which are already obsolete. Note that our actual education system has incorporated inclusive topics, which is a progress, nevertheless, gender although it is addressed, it still needs more presence and attention in the education field.
Finally, we would like to comment a relevant study from the Columbia Británica, in Canada, which relates the fact of seeing both parents doing domestic chores with the election from their daughters of less stereotyped careers.

Key words: inequality, gender, roles, early education, power