The activity is about the problem of gender inequality and workplace diversity in our country and possibly in another European country. The main goal for students is to think of the question: is it possible for women to work in higher positions? Our activity is directly aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals, especially to the goal number 4.
Expected results
- 14/15-year-old students should justify or consider the women's position in being managers or members of board of directors and they should make their own opinion on this issue.
- They should develop social, communicative and digital competences, critical thinking and also use of English, statistics.
The project lasts for two weeks and and the working procedure is devided in several phases:
- Search what my student's approach towards gender equality is → students make the questionnaires concerning the topic under the teacher's supervision.
- Ask the questions in their families and possibly in the neighbourhood.
- Visit the Water Factory in our town.
- Compare and prepare students' research outcome in form of Word.
- Share student's views, ideas and thoughts with their peers from other country via video conference.
Work process
1. According to the similar reseacrh on this topic in United States, only 25% of people asked in this research think that women should have leading positions in business companies, whereas 75% of those people think that women are not good candidates to be members of board of directors (see this link: http://www.isidewith.com/poll/1549442036), I asked my student to think about the topic.
Students were discussing the problem of inequality of men and women in the field of employment in higher positions, by thinking what would be the global attitude of our population towards this issue.
Students made a questionnaire, concerning the issue, consisting of 10 questions, which they would ask their family members at home (possibly as a video or audio recording). This is the final questionnaire in English and Serbian:
My students were thinking about the questions concerning the problem, asked them to public and justified the outcomes. They have very serious access to the problem and in cooperation with the parents conducted their own little research.
Our project was done in civil education classes, correlated with other subjects: Cross Curricular, Ethics, Foreign Languages, Informatics, Mathematics and Social Studies.