2. Can playgrounds be sexist?
Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez
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Why Are the Girls Stuck Under the Stairs?
Girls told fatimer that they did value these spaces because they're quieter and more peaceful. But still, i couldn't help wondering, why is it the girls who are stuck under the stairs? Fatimer tells me about a a playtime she observed the boys took over the main playing area with a football match while the girls played around the edges or chattered. And then what happened was, one day, when the class bell rang, the boys quickly evacuated the area. It was interesting to see that girls and started using thesar for a very short time to practise gymnastics, to go for cartwheels. That just makes me feel so sadeyo was really stare year.
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