Gender bias of all boys’ schools: english text selection – Cody Reynolds

Does the choice of text studied in all boys’ schools lead to the marginalisation of women and galvanise negative gender stereotypes? 

In all boys’ schools there is a tendency to favour fiction written by male authors. This leads to gender becoming both invisible and irrelevant to classroom criticism. Which continues to perpetuate the underlying misogyny in our society. 

University of Newcastle Researcher Cody Reynolds Joined Alex James on Breakfast. 

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