This week in Danish education news: 1) In my daughter's social skills class, the boys played a networking game, while the girls colored. 2) In my son's math class, they played a game comparing stats for different cars. 3) At my uni, they discussed why there are no women in STEM.
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Replying to @JCSkewesDK
This is so disappointing. I can't ever remember being segregated like this at school in Cyprus; only in PE. No wonder a country of 1 million we have women in STEM. In my BSc compsci in UK there were 100 people, about 6 were women, but 3 of us were Cypriot women.

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Replying to @o_guest
It's an unintentional default. I asked and the boys will color next time. But I also asked whether how this explained to the girls and it wasn't. Meta communication is important.
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Replying to @JCSkewesDK @o_guest
I think Australia has major issues with gender essentialism and inequality - or did 13 years ago - but there was some expectation of backlash even in the rural area I came from. Relatively low awareness in DK, and an assumption that all these problems were solved in the 70s.
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Replying to @JCSkewesDK
Yes, but why was the segregation done based on gender?
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Replying to @o_guest
The justification was that the kids (6) feel safer with their own gender. But even if true, this would based on frequency of prior interactions etc. So bad excuse.
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Bullying is usually within-gender too at that age... so I think their argument is flawed so many different ways.
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