Injection: A Gender Swap Story (Gender Swap Stories)

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He adds this was at one time his "sole focus", but after the general election in 2019, Mr Johnson handed him a "broader role" to consider how the Cabinet Office might improve co-ordination of government policy with devolved administrations. When our children do inevitably start pointing out gendered divisions we can help by revising stereotypes with other examples, such as explaining girls can and do play football and that boys can have long hair too. We can also encourage a diverse range of toys regardless of what gender they are intended for. We need to provide as many opportunities as possible "for them to have experiences that go against this sort of avalanche of gendered play", says Maas. The hostage swap deal has also shone a light on Israeli detention and sentencing practices in the Palestinian territories, where Palestinians are tried in military courts and minors are regularly imprisoned. At this year’s UN Climate Change Conference, COP 28, UN Women will ensure that women and girls’ rights, abilities, and needs are taken into account in climate debates and incorporated into government policies. I just know that this is a wonderful community and other single-sex boys communities that I've come from have been equally wonderful.

Israel has a history of agreeing to asymmetric prisoner swaps: in 2011, Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, returned home after five years of captivity in the Gaza Strip in exchange for 1,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails. He said the transition had been a joy to watch — particularly as he saw boys push themselves academically to keep up with their newer peers. If from infancy, boys are discouraged from playing with toys we might associate as feminine, then they may not develop a skill set that they might need later in life. If they are discouraged by their peers from playing with dolls, while at the same time they see their mother doing most of the childcare, what does that say about whose role it is to care? And so we enter the realm of "biological essentialism", where we ascribe an innate basis to a behaviour that is, when you delve a bit deeper, highly likely to be learned.

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Women and girls have been at the forefront of climate activism and can offer unique knowledge and expertise—including among Indigenous, rural, and young populations—that can support effective climate action.

Guatemala has developed and implemented a gender strategy to reduce women-specific vulnerabilities to climate change and to ensure that women benefit from community-based gender-responsive measures. These include restoring mangrove ecosystems with the full participation of women’s groups; managing fisheries with the participation of women; and ensuring that at least 30% of forest area is managed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous women. Anthony Boys, principal of Marist Catholic College North Shore, also oversaw the introduction of girls to his previously all-boys high school in 2021, when it merged with St Mary's Catholic Primary School. In fact, studies show that our own expectations tend to frame how we view others and ourselves. Parents have attributed gender neutral angry faces as boys while happy and sad faces are labelled as girls. Mothers are more likely to emphasise their boys' physical attributes – even setting more adventurous targets for boys than for girls. They also over-estimate crawling abilities for their sons compared to daughters, despite there being no reported physical difference. So, people's own biases could be influencing their children, and so reinforcing these stereotypes. As neuroscientist and author Gina Rippon of Aston University explains, the fact that we live in a gendered world itself creates a gendered brain. It creates a culture of boys who feel conditioned to behave in more typically masculine traits – they may get excluded by peers if they do not. If we focus on differences, it also means, as Rippon says, we begin to accept myths such as boys being better at science and girls at caring. The brief provides a comprehensive overview of gender integration in current National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), Adaptation Communications, and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs, national climate action plans).Michael Gove said the Cabinet Office became a "Mary Poppins bag" of a department, where prime ministers would "shove" issues that didn't have a home elsewhere in Whitehall. Mass testing - then not planned in the UK, although recommended by the World Health Organisation - she claimed was "unnecessary" in March 2020. The Minns government has made co-education a priority, by proposing to redraw intake boundaries so every child is in the catchment of a co-ed high school by 2027. My daughter is a stubborn girl. We are a quiet family but she would not listen to us. We thought she would spend many years in jail. We are really happy she will be released.”

Gender scholars agree that these preferences are highly socially conditioned – but there remains disagreement about whether any gendered behaviour is innate, for instance, there is evidence that girls who have been exposed to higher levels of androgens in the womb, prefer toys we typically categorise as for boys. Even here Fine points out it could be the environment shaping their preferences. These girls do not consistently show better spatial ability either – a skill that is often said to be better in men. When you think about it, this is wholly unsurprising due to the way we are socialised as infants. Parents and caregivers don't mean to treat boys and girls differently, but evidence shows they clearly do. It starts before birth, with mothers describing their baby's movements differently if they know they are having a boy. Male babies were more likely to be described as "vigorous" and "strong", but there was no such difference when mothers did not know the sex. When we consider physiological responses to situations that might invoke empathy, women and men actually respond the same, it's just that from an early age, women have been socialised to act upon this apparently feminine emotion more. Bhungroo, a gender-just climate solutions award-winning project, is a rainwater harvesting technology developed in Gujarat, India, supporting women in self-help groups respond to recurring droughts and floods that affect agricultural land.Jessica Montell, the executive director of HaMoked, an Israeli human rights organisation focussing on legal issues, said: “Some [on the list] have been convicted; the bulk of those to be released are detainees still awaiting trial, on charges that range from incitement to stone-throwing to attempted murder. Mr Gove says he was "making clear to Number 10" that there was an issue within weeks of being appointed a minister for the Cabinet Office.

We had to give much closer attention to the kind of social experience that a school provides," Mr Heath said. Among those to be released are Palestinian women and children in administrative detention … These people should also have been released unconditionally, so a deal to release Israeli hostages and Palestinian administrative detainees is doubly welcome.” Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove says it was only when he became a Cabinet Office minister that it became clear "quite how dysfunctional the structure of the organisation was". The prevalence of private, single-sex high schools in the eastern suburbs is why the state government has prioritised the area for one of its high school mergers.This was despite masks being recommended by other experts and made mandatory in certain places later that year. She also participated in a video Q&A with Boris Johnson in Downing Street around that time, claiming that big gatherings, such as the Cheltenham Festival were "not going to have a big effect" on the spread of the virus. However, only 50% of NDCs include gender-related adaptation actions, whereas a more substantial 95% of NAPs and 71.4% of Adaptation Communications incorporate gender-based adaptation action.