Title: digi.komp12 Beispiel
Course: Gender Equality

Englisch

Gender Pay Gap - Gender Equality

12. Schulstufe

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVnLHVVR568 (Published by the European Commission)

Watch the video given above.

What do you think about it? Do you think it explores a crucial issue of gender inequality? Is it exaggerated?

Your teacher will provide you with a link for a website called Answergarden. In order to brainstorm your ideas about the topics "Gender Pay Gap" and "Gender Equality", type your ideas into Answergarden. You can enter an unlimited number of entries, but every entry is limited to 20 characters. You can use your ideas you came up with regarding the video as well.

Your answers will be discussed in class.

Task 1

It's your turn!

Research the situation of the Gender Pay Gap in Austria and compare it with the situation in other (European) countries. You can use any scientifically based sources (statistics, articles,...). Note down your main findings and give the sources. Discuss your results in groups of three. In your group, combine your findings and put them in a Word-Document to create a fact sheet.

Your teacher will provide you with a link for Padlet, which works like a digital pinboard. Share your factsheet with the other groups and your teacher by posting it to Padlet.

Task 2

Watch the extract of Anne-Marie Slaughter's Ted-Talk "Can we all "have it all"?".

Be prepared to answer questions about it in the following task.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH5iEf9oxaI&t=44s (Published by TED)

You are going to watch extracts of the Ted talk again and answer some questions about them.

Take out your mobile phone and use a QR code scanner to scan the QR code given below. If you happen not to have installed a scanner, you can download it easily at your App-Store.

Scan the QR code and proceed. Enter the game pin and a nickname. Let's go!

After watching the extract of the video and answering the questions, what is your personal opinion of Anne-Marie Slaughter's talk? What do you think of her ideas and suggestions? Has she convinced you? Why (not)? Do you think that her approach could bring about more equality in our society?

Share your thoughts in a discussion in class.

Additional task

Read through the following statement

"Gender equality is not a women's issue. It is a human issue. It affects us all."

Do you agree? Why is gender equality not only a women's issue? How is the gender pay gap linked to gender equality? How important are stereotypes when it comes to gender equality? What is your personal experience regarding this issue?

React to this statement and the questions by recording a short monologue (approximately 3 minutes) on Vocaroo (click on the name to be directly forwarded to the website). It enables you to record your monologue directly on your laptop or smartphone. Save your monologue and publish it on Padlet.