Much has changed since the time Grabrucker was writing. You cite There’s A Good Girl – Marianne Grabrucker’s 1988 account of the gender stereotyping experienced while raising her daughter – as the main inspiration for and The Gender Agenda. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.
Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.If only there was a way of telling them “but I knew this would happen! And I’d do it again, dammit! THIS DOESN’T MEAN I’M WRONG!” And as soon as you slip up there will then be people around you (elderly uncles, usually) who sweep in to inform you that “boys will be boys” (an early precursor to “Brexit means Brexit”, two phrases as destructive as they are utterly meaningless). Gender-neutral parenting is gardening in a gale whatever your good intentions, the environment is against you. There’s also “none shall ever know the sex of my child and I’ll change their nappies with my eyes closed, avoiding unconscious bias even if it means spreading poo everywhere”.Īll of these options have their pros and cons, although personally I find the defeatist ones most tempting. Then there’s “I’m raising my son in a man-cave because I read something about testosterone, spatial rotation and monkeys – or was it rats? – written in 1997 and you can’t argue with science”. There’s “look, I tried it but found my daughter to be magically hardwired to like glitter unicorns and my son to like machine guns, so there’s nothing I can do about it”. The second says you can’t do it, either, but you might as well die trying.
There are two schools of thought regarding gender-neutral parenting.
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