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This is a summary of the report written by Dr Heather Mendick and commissioned by Gender Action which evaluates Gender Action’s impact on schools that it worked with in the period from December 2023 to July 2025. The main focus of the evaluation report is on the impact of deeper engagement with seven schools from January 2025 to July 2025.
Dr Heather Mendick
This report written by Dr Heather Mendick and commissioned by Gender Action evaluates Gender Action’s impact on schools that it worked with in the period from December 2023 to July 2025. The main focus of the evaluation report is on the impact of deeper engagement with seven schools from January 2025 to July 2025.
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Gender Action is all about challenging gender stereotypes through a whole-setting or whole-school approach. But what is a whole-school approach? This helpful infographic explains why systemic change is necessary to make sustainable change.
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Want to get someone onboard with the programme? This flyer helpfully outlines why gender stereotyping is a problem, and how using Gender Action’s approach can help, and the benefits of the programme.
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Display your commitment to Gender Action with these posters:
‘Challenge language’ poster
Early years/Key Stage 1 poster
Primary/Secondary poster
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Download our ‘Gender stereotyping: Exploring bias and language’ toolkit, which gives some guidance on how to challenge bias and look at language in your setting.
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This report summarises the collated data and activity for the duration of the pilot, from mid-November 2018 until the end of October 2019 and uses this evidence to make recommendations to support the next phase of the development and rollout of Gender Action.