Organization: NGO Women’s Action

Countries involved: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The project aims to contribute to ensuring equity in primary education in the region by establishing a collaboration between professional organizations to bring about changes in textbook content so that they will be gender sensitive and provide a balanced portrayal of men and women and their roles in the public and private spheres. It will also bring about changes in classroom communication and raise awareness among teachers on their roles in reproducing gender stereotypes, and influence teaching practice so that classroom communication is not in any way gender insensitive or an agent for reproducing gender stereotypes. Results of this initiative: a handbook for textbook authors and teachers will be developed which will contribute to a gender sensitive approach to primary schooling (this will also be a guide for Ministry officials who decide on which textbooks are to be selected for classroom use; a network of teachers and textbook authors will be established who would promote the developed recommendations further.

Serbia and Montenegro  |  $100,359  |  September 2005 - September 2007