Stereotype-Free, Choose Your Career Freely. Activities for Elementary School Projects - Kolářová, Jitka; Babanová, Anna; Hausenblasová, Jitka; Krobová, Tereza; Smetáčková, Irena (Gender Studies, o. p. s, 2014)
Dear readers, we are presenting you with a methodology "cookbook" which you can use to organize career counselling projects which promote equal opportunities for girls and boys. The goal of this publication is to broaden the range of jobs and education programmes girls and boys consider as their potential career options. We hope to liberate the imagination of young people from the constraints of the traditional division of jobs into jobs for men and jobs for women. The idea that everybody deserves opportunities to put their unique talents to use and to dream freely and without regard to stereotypes about men's and women's social roles is fundamental to this book. Studies on decision-making among Czech students show that rather than evaluating their skills and abilities, girls and boys tend to use gender stereotypes to help them choose their future careers (see Jarkovská et al. 2010, Smetáčková 2006, 2007).