A Parent-Powered Movement
Areas of Intervention
1: School leadership and Policy
Focuses on strengthening governance and accountability by embedding a clear commitment to gender equality and anti-misogyny across leadership plans, policies, and improvement strategies. It involves aligning senior leaders and governors, and using data, review processes, and whole-school engagement to guide, monitor, and sustain progress over time.
2: Family and Community Engagement
Focuses on building strong partnerships with families and the wider community to support shared understanding and consistent messaging. It involves engaging parents and carers through workshops, communications, surveys, and forums, and working with partner schools and networks to reinforce learning and encourage dialogue beyond the classroom.
3: Staff capacity and professional development
Focuses on strengthening staff capacity and confidence to understand, identify, and respond to misogyny and gender-based harm through ongoing professional development and awareness-raising. It involves building shared knowledge across the workforce, supported by designated roles, leadership opportunities, and sustained engagement models.
Focuses on coordinating a whole-school commitment to gender equality and anti-misogyny across all areas, ensuring consistent values, practices, and messaging. It involves aligning leadership, staff, students, curriculum, and culture within a shared framework. Award or accreditation schemes can guide implementation, recognise progress, and sustain long-term improvement.
Primary schools offer such a wealth of opportunities to embed anti-misogyny work.
While a whole school approach is the best, any start is a good start,
and can come from identifying easy places to add, link and frame within current work.
Here are some ideas, resources and links across the various "areas of intervention."Â Â
4: Curriculum
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.
5: PSHE / Safeguarding / Pastoral support        Â
Focuses on embedding age-appropriate learning within PSHE/RSE and wider safeguarding and pastoral systems. It involves equipping students with the knowledge and skills to recognise, report, and respond safely as well as be positive advocates and allies, supported by accessible reporting mechanisms, restorative approaches, and teacher resources that encourage open discussion and reflection.
Focuses on empowering students to take an active role in shaping school culture by raising awareness, challenging gender stereotypes, and promoting gender equality through pupil voice and participation. It involves peer leadership, student-designed and led initiatives that enable young people to contribute to campaigns, discussions, and school decision-making while developing confidence and advocacy skills.
6: Student Voice,
Participation & Peer Leadership Â
Focuses on shaping an inclusive school environment and everyday culture that visibly reflects and reinforces gender equality and respect. It involves reviewing and adapting physical spaces, resources, displays, and routines to ensure balanced representation, challenge stereotypes, and promote positive role models across the whole school community.