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This activity is something you can do with children between about 4 and 11 years old. It’s based on a test that psychologists have used to explore children’s expectations of gender. At the very least, it can get you and your child into an interesting talk.
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Even inner sexism?
Why, in an activity created for showing the sexism even for the younger, the woman is shorter than the man?
Hi Esther, The pictograms are
Hi Esther,
The pictograms are designed to represent gender, they are not intended to be accurate representatives of actual people. In choosing to make the female cypher appear slightly shorter than the male cypher, it is likely the designer was merely reflecting the overwhelming body of data that the average height of a woman tends to be shorter than the average height of a man with the same background. An exhaustive list of studies reporting this can be found on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height#Average_height_around_the_world.
Many thanks for taking the time to comment.
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