ODI: How can schools tackle misogyny? Embedding equality in education

While the Netflix show Adolescence sparked a worldwide conversation on the need to tackle misogyny in schools, experts and civil society have long focused on the role education can play in fostering more gender-equal norms.

Platforming insights from ODI research together with Beyond Equality's experiences of leading school-based interventions with boys, this conversation will focus on what can be done through the school system as a whole to embed equality in education. From gender-transformative curricula, to teacher-training, to front-line facilitation initiatives, much evidence points to the critical ways schools can help men and boys to nurture healthy masculinities.

In a deeply polarised political and social environment, the widening divide in attitudes between genders within younger generations is posing a risk to longer-term social cohesion, as well as threatening progress achieved over the last decades on gender equality and gender-based violence. Schools are one of the critical environments where these divisions are increasingly being played out, leaving teachers and parents struggling to combat the rising misogyny among students.

In an effort to maintain momentum and motivate action on this urgent problem, this ODI Global & Beyond Equality event will convene leading figures in education and policy, along with norms experts, to discuss how to better work together on impactful education policy to disrupt harmful norms, and tackle misogyny in schools while also benefiting boys educational attainment.

Speakers

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  Daniel Guinness

  Co-founder & Managing Director, Beyond Equality

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  Lib Peck

  Director, Violence Reduction Unit, London Mayor/City Hall

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  Yona Nestel

  Global Advocacy Lead for Education, Plan International

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  Ruth Kagia

  High-Level Envoy, Global Partnership for Education

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  Rachel Marcus

  Senior Research Fellow, Gender Equality & Social Inclusion, ODI Global