International Women's Day

Sunday was International Women's day, so this week the group learnt about some important women in history and looked at some gender stereotypes we might have.

We watched some videos about the Suffragettes, a group of women for fought for women's right to vote, and did some quizzes to see if were paying attention.

On Wednesdays session we ran a little Social experiment to challenge gender stereotypes. The young people were split into pairs and each person was given a task to complete. The twist was that one person would be doing a typical mans task and one a typical women's task. To decide who did which task they played rock paper scissors with the winner automatically getting the mans task. Some of the mans tasks included relaxing, working out and having a servant. Women's tasks mainly revolved around looking after a baby and doing chores such as cleaning and washing dishes.

This experiment challenged the young people to think about stereotypes they might have about how does what task, and in the end they decided that both men and women can do the same tasks.