Mission: Gender Equality, Carmen-Mirela Butaciu, LAM Lipova, Romania GENDER EQUALITY LESSON PLAN - Carmen Mirela Butaci | Page 2

Display or have students read the definition of
Differentiation and Alternatives
10
Consider consequences from the
mins discrimination:
“Discrimination is when a certain person or a group of
people is treated unfairly. Sometimes the reason they
are being treated unfairly is because of their age,
gender, religion, or race.”
In order to remember the specific terms of this
definition ask students to develop an action for each
term within the definition and the group can then
“act” out the definition.
This will help memorize the definition and check for
understanding of all the words.
Time
15
mins
Main Content:
Introduce the topic of gender discrimination and how it
can lead to gender inequality.. Ask the groups to
brainstorm what it means to be a boy or a girl in our
society. If students are confused, tell them instead to
‘List the things that seem most important about being a
boy or a girl. '
Tell the groups to come up with as many characteristics
as they can and list them next to the appropriate
picture.
After several minutes, ask a few groups to briefly
present their drawing and the differences that they
have highlighted between the boy and the girl.
To generate a discussion, ask participants to identify
five characteristics that were listed next to the girl by
all groups. For each contribution, ask if it’s something
that girls were born with, or was it learned.
Repeat the same questions for boys.
Use a flip-chart to list the common traits that refer to
sex and a separate flip-chart to list the traits that refer
to gender. When participants are done listing traits,
write ‘SEX’ and ‘GENDER’ in big letters across the
top of the lists.
• Explain that a fundamental difference between sex
and gender characteristics is whether a person is born
with, or learns, a particular characteristic.
• Has it always been like this for everyone?
Explain that sex and gender characteristics also differ
according to whether they change over time and across
societies.
perspective of an individual, their
community and their country.
For example: “certain person”
could be pointing at one or two
people, “group of people” could be
arms making a circle.
Ask students to work in pairs to
identify 3 possible consequences of
discrimination and share these
back with the group.
Teaching Approaches
Note And Explain
Key Learning Point
•
Sex
and
Gender
are
fundamentally different
• Sexual characteristics are
biologically
determined
and
remain the same throughout time
and across societies
• Gender attributes are shaped by
social relations, change over time
and may be different in different
societies
Divide students into five or six
small groups and ask each group
to draw a boy and a girl on two
separate flip-charts.