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Both teachers are femaie, 97% of the early care and education teacher workforce is femaie, and the profession and socieloy on the whole do not seem to view that as a concern. Gender identity begins at the age of two years old. Let's start first with ourselves. We need gender balance in our teacher workforce. Men need women. Women need men. Children need both.
For more go to the Working Group on Men in ECE. https://www.facebook.com/WorldForumFoundation/posts/10153964344973343

So lets put these two issues together: gender stereotypes and the anti-bias curriculum. What are programs supposed to do when they conflict? Many minority groups have far more rigid gender roles and expectations than mainstream Americans or Europeans. When a father says to a teacher, "I do not want my boys playing in the dress-up area", what is the teacher supposed to do? I had an argument with an African American mother who told her daughter to stop climbing in the tree. When I protested, she responded, "girls don't do that".