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  • Some people were NOT happy about #NoMoreBoysAndGirls

    A TV show which aimed to take a class of children and make them gender neutral in order to create gender equality later in life was not responded to well by some quarters on Twitter last night.

    In this bold, engaging and provocative experiment, Doctor Javid Abdelmoneim aims to find out whether stripping away the pink and blue will change the way this class of seven-year-olds think.

    Being gender neutral

    Taking over one Year 3 class from Lanesend primary school in the Isle of Wight, Doctor Javid aims to remove all differences in the way boys and girls are treated to see if, after six weeks of gender neutral treatment, he can even out the gaps in their achievement across a range of important psychological measures from self-confidence to spatial awareness.

    However some on Twitter just did not get it!

    https://twitter.com/Southendman1972/status/898002964463398912

    https://twitter.com/jparry1975/status/897719097500282880

    https://twitter.com/DougWood_/status/897925774564577280

    https://twitter.com/SebastianRose_/status/898060824950034432

    https://twitter.com/BerkeleyHunter/status/898039641596624900

    https://twitter.com/wolfbane1997/status/898020780231069697

    Well, it made for depressing reading:

    https://twitter.com/karenomfg/status/898011903540285441

     

  • Dr Javid takes a look to see what happens when you raise children gender free

    In a bold experiment, Dr Javid is taking a class of school children and raising them gender free in a brand new show for BBC 2.

    Dr Javid takes a look to see what happens when you raise children gender free

    The BBC is set to broadcast a programme which aims to see if kids can go gender free.

    Is the way we treat boys and girls the real reason we haven’t achieved equality between men and women?

    In this bold, engaging and provocative experiment, Doctor Javid Abdelmoneim aims to find out whether stripping away the pink and blue will change the way this class of seven-year-olds think.

    Being gender neutral

    Taking over one Year 3 class from Lanesend primary school in the Isle of Wight, Doctor Javid aims to remove all differences in the way boys and girls are treated to see if, after six weeks of gender neutral treatment, he can even out the gaps in their achievement across a range of important psychological measures from self-confidence to spatial awareness.

    Who is Doctor Javid?

    As a doctor, he knows there are basic biological differences between the sexes, but he believes our biology can’t fully explain why men and women’s life chances – from pay, to careers are still so unequal in the UK. Even a quick shopping trip reveals just how much childhood has changed since Dr. Javid was growing up, with a tsunami of pink and blue clothes and toys aimed at different genders. A visit to Professor Gina Rippon at Aston University, one of the UK’s leading experts in brain imaging and neuroscience, reveals there is no such thing as a male or female brain type and instead the brain is a plastic organ, shaped and moulded by experiences, in which childhood is key.

    Shocked by the children’s own polarised opinions on how boys and girls should live their lives, Doctor Javid commissions Dr Stella Mavroveli from the Psychometric Lab at University College London to assess between boys and girls behaviour and psychological traits from confidence to self-esteem, empathy and social skills. Upset by the results, Dr Javid sets out a series of interventions both in class and at home, to tackle these differences. Will Doctor Javid’s gender neutral mission produce meaningful change when he later repeats his tests at the end of term?

    There are two episodes in this series, episode 1 will broadcast tonight at 9 PM the second programme will air on the 23rd August, both will be broadcast on BBC 2

    No More Boys And Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free? is produced by Outline Productions for BBC Two