On March 8, International Women's Day, UNESCO, UNGEI and Transform Education, with the support of the OECD, organize an interactive webinar to discuss how gender stereotypes and bias affect learners’ well-being, educational and career pathways, and can be challenged in and through education. Participants – including young people, education and gender policy-makers, researchers and practitioners – will have the chance to hear insights from people around the globe tackling gender stereotyping and bias in teaching and learning, and creating a better future for all.
The webinar will build on evidence on this topic from different contexts, learners’ and teachers’ experience, and identified good practice. Specific attention will be paid to efforts aimed at increasing girls’ participation in traditionally male-dominated domains of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and in getting boys to take study paths related to teaching and caring. Past laureates of the UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education with experience in countering gender bias will also be invited to speak, as UNESCO launches the 2022 cycle of the Prize.