Curriculum

Curriculum Content, Design & Delivery

Ensuring gender equality is embedded across what is taught and how it is delivered, through inclusive content, intentional curriculum design, and effective teaching approaches.

Integrating gender equality and feminist perspectives across subjects (applying a gender lens to content)
Auditing schemes of work for representation gaps; ensuring women are well represented across all areas (e.g. authors, scientists, historical figures)
Using case studies and storytelling (e.g. “hidden women in history” projects)
Integrating content into existing schemes of work (not just standalone lessons)
Developing custom lessons where needed
Designing cross-curricular projects (e.g. linking English, PSHE, and History)
Building in opportunities for oracy, including structured discussions and debates on gender topics (See Voice21 Oracy and Misogyny)
Providing teachers with adaptable lesson plans and resources

Critical Thinking & Analysis

Developing students’ ability to question and analyse gender stereotypes and identify sexism and misogyny.

Integrating critical thinking on whose voices are heard or absent (e.g. in History, English)

Exploring bias, stereotypes, and power dynamics within subject content by analysing media, texts, and historical sources

Customs lessons

Helping students understand gender equality in real-world and historical contexts.

Lessons on gender, stereotypes and their impacts
Teaching about the suffrage movement, modern-day discrimination, and activism

Exploring laws, rights, and social movements related to gender equality
Linking past struggles to current issues (e.g. online misogyny, workplace inequality)

Focuses on embedding gender equality and critical perspectives across the curriculum by applying a gender lens to subject content and ensuring diverse representation of voices, role models, and perspectives. It involves developing students’ critical thinking, oracy, and digital citizenship skills so they can understand, question, and challenge gender stereotypes and misogyny across different contexts.