How can parents teach gender equality to their children?

Parents and teachers should poke holes in gender stereotypes any chance they get and teach kids that boys and girls are more alike than different, experts say. read more

The child will naturally attribute some of their parents characteristics to their gender or other superficial things like skin colour. It would be ridiculous to suggest parents have to be the same in most aspects to teach the child gender equality. Also that's not the point of gender equality. read more

Teach them that gender is fluid. Gender is one of the first social categories children become aware of. By the time they are 3 years old, they have formed their gender identity. So much of what limits boys and girls is rooted in socially constructed ideas about what one is or isn’t permitted to do within their gender. read more

Talk openly with your children about gender stereotypes. Gender is an issue for my seven-year-old son, as well. read more