People learn ironing, sewing, and cooking at home as these are the most basic tasks.
But when a school offers classes to teach these tasks as an additional class, so that students, especially boys, it can create values in relation to gender equality and can break the stigma in front of them while doing these activities.
This is what Montecastelo School of Spain teaches its students under the slogan, “Equality is learned with actions.”
The school which is located in the city of Vigo announced in 2018 that it would include lessons in home economics among other subjects.point 240 |
The lessons include ironing, sewing, cooking, and other manual activities like carpentry, masonry, and plumbing and electrician skills and its male students would be taught to do these tasks.point 163 | point 163 | 1
All classes are taught by teachers and representatives of the school campus and also some of the fathers of these students.
Gabriel Bravo, the coordinator of the establishment, explained to a newspaper that all the activities were carried out because, “It seemed very useful for our students to learn to perform these tasks so that, when they form a family, they are involved from the beginning and know that a house is a matter of 2, it’s not a matter of the woman cleaning, doing the dishes, and ironing.point 447 |
This will allow them to become aware and learn to handle themselves at home.point 63 | ”point 66 | 1
The school administration was looking for ways to promote gender equality criteria for their students and then this idea was borne.
The project was then discussed to parents and students. The students were not comfortable when they heard about sewing and ironing.
However, when the students started performing these tasks they realized that these activities can be done by men and women both as it is so simple.
“For some, it was the first time they had held an iron, it was fun and instructive at the same time, we are quite surprised and the parents are very happy,” said Bravo during an interview.
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