Early years practitioners should not throw the baby out with the bathwater when reviewing gender equality practices, say Jennie Lindon and Anne O'Connor
Good practice on equal opportunities on gender has evolved against a backdrop of a society that systematically undervalued female citizens. Girls were assumed to be less able academically than boys and their academic success in the early part of schooling was dismissed by the explanation that boys developed later. There are strong indications that some local authorities even used a more stringent standard for girls to pass the 11-plus exam, because otherwise they would have outnumbered boys in the grammar schools.
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