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Education and Gendered Cheese – Nipples + Misogyny

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We need more women to join the education debate and not just in the audience.

http://voice.adobe.com/videos/DqVeCoftWDm – I made this video called Education and Gendered Cheese.

After I posted it @AnnMroz sent me a message saying ‘you have combined my greatest irritations in one clip’.

I think this clip resonates with many; male and female, because despite having a large female workforce, the decision making process and the debate is still largely male dominated.  There is no excuse to have all male panels debating education anymore.

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It was ill-conceived to allow Katie Hopkins a voice debating education when there are so many women in the field with far more experience.  She courted controversy like a pantomime dame to be laughed at – I saw no men paraded in this way. The serious stuff was debated by the men.

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The TES recently printed this http://ow.ly/z2s6u.

It discussed how money is being…

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