This LibGuide provides resources to support you and inform you with issues relating to your gender identity; It compiles resources to learn from by reading and reflecting and encourages discussion about gender issues.
Please note: not everything on this guide is appropriate for younger students and some resources deal with topics for an older audience.
"William Carey was instrumental in the abolition of Sati in India.
He has a long history of protest to improve the lot of women in India, including protests against other cultural institutions that oppressed women, like polygamy, female infanticide, child marriage, euthanasia and forced female illiteracy. It was Carey's relentless battle against Sati for 25 years which finally led to the famous Edict in 1829 banning widow burning." Craig Mills
Carey goes co-educational.
"At Carey, girls and boys will be treated equally; indeed, this in itself is one of the main objects of co-education. Gerard Kramer, Headmaster
Whole school 50:50 gender ratio.
This box contains resources recommended for students in year levels 7 and 8.
This box contains resources recommended for students in year levels 7 and 8.
The following videos may not be appropriate for younger students and deal with topics for an older audience.
Ableism: Discrimination in favour of able-bodied people.
Cisgender: Someone who is not transgender or gender diverse, and who identifies with the sex they were assigned at birth.
Equality: Ensuring that everyone has the same opportunities and receives the same treatment and support.
Equity: Equity is about giving people what they need, in order to make things fair. Giving more to those who need it. This does not mean providing someone with less but simply providing more to those who need it.This is not the same as equality, nor is it the same as inequality. It is simply giving more to those who need it, which is proportionate to their own circumstances, in order to ensure that everyone has the same opportunities.
Feminism: The advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.
Gender Diverse: Someone whose gender identity does not fit into the categories associated with their assigned sex.
Intersectionality: The complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups
Intersex: People who are intersex are born with natural variations in their body that differ from what we might expect to be ‘typically’ male/female. There are heaps of ways that you can be intersex!
Non-Binary: An umbrella term people use to describe gender that doesn’t fit squarely into male or female.
Transgender: A person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth.
Women's Rights: Rights that promote a position of legal and social equality of women with men.
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Everyone is affected by gender inequality - women, men, including trans and gender diverse people, children and families. It impacts people of all ages and backgrounds.
The difference between equality and equity must be emphasised. Although both promote fairness, equality achieves this through treating everyone the same regardless of need, while equity achieves this through treating people differently dependent on need. However, this different treatment may be the key to reaching equality.
For Example:
Fairness through equality would mean giving all students the same level of support. However, those who need more support beyond this initial level to succeed would therefore not have equal opportunities to those who do not.
Fairness through equity means giving students varying, perhaps unequal, but proportionate levels of support. This would then mean that those who need and receive the extra support would go onto have the same, equal opportunities as those who did not.
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