answer text |
<p>From September 2020, it will be compulsory for all primary schools to teach relationships
education and for all secondary schools to teach relationships and sex education.
Health education will be compulsory in all state-funded schools. These subjects directly
support the government’s ambitions to end discrimination against women and girls.</p><p>
</p><p>Pupils will be taught about stereotypes, consent, mutual respect, management
of conflict, sexual violence and laws relating to sex, relationships and young people
in an age-appropriate way.</p><p> </p><p>The department’s careers strategy is clear
that positive steps are being taken to tackle gender stereotypes in schools. For example,
we are exploring how to close the gender divide in science, technology, engineering
and mathematics (STEM) across educational and professional routes, such as through
STEM apprenticeships and the new T levels.</p><p> </p><p>We are funding gender balance
programmes in physics and computing which aim to identify practical interventions
that schools can implement to improve girls’ participation in these subjects. We are
also funding research that will help us to better understand what works to improve
girls’ mathematics and physics A-level participation.</p>
|
|