State introduces gender neutrality concept in school textbooks
The Hindu
A father grating coconut in the kitchen and cooking snacks for his daughter may sound a bit odd in a patriarchal society. But what if the message appears in school textbooks? That is what has happened in the State, where the government has introduced innovative textbooks comprising gender neutral messages.
A father grating coconut in the kitchen and cooking snacks for his daughter may sound a bit odd in a patriarchal society.
But what if the message appears in school textbooks? That is what has happened in the State, where the government has introduced innovative textbooks comprising gender neutral messages.
The objective is to inculcate the message of gender neutrality in the minds of children, authorities said.
As schools in the State reopened on Monday after two month-long summer vacation, the textbooks, with pictorial representation of family members cutting across genders involved in cooking and other kitchen chores, are drawing widespread attention.
The innovative textbooks caught wide attention after General Education Minister V. Sivankutty shared a page from one of such textbooks in his Facebook post the other day. The Minister shared the page from the Malayalam medium textbook of Class III which shows the father sitting on the floor grating coconut while the mother is seen cooking dishes.
In the English textbook, the father could be seen cooking snacks for the daughter.
Teachers and students wholeheartedly welcomed the gender equality concept included in textbooks and hailed it as a “positive” step.
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