Professions have no gender

Objectives

Encourage to undertake career paths for each sex, which according to common usage belong to the opposite sex

Focus

On purely male and female trades

Description

Divide the participants into two teams: one team in which there will be only boys and one team in which there will be only girls.
Prepare leaflets containing typical men’s jobs and typical women’s jobs, divide them into two different urns.
Subsequently you will have the females drawn from the urn containing the typical male jobs and the males from the urn containing the typical female jobs.
Finally, you will question each of them about their feelings about it and if how they have an idea of how to pursue that career

Duration

One Hour

Materials

Two glass urns; cards

Tips and Tricks

Film the participants’ reaction in reading the trade assigned by the “lot” and have them review it at the end

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