Vocabulary :

• gender gap (plural gender gaps) = "A measurable difference between the behaviors of men and women."
  (en.wiktionary.org)
  
  

• Girls'names - a list (dictionary-thesaurus.com)

• Boys'names - a list (dictionary-thesaurus.com)

• Offensive to females :
  "There are many names in the English language that exclude or are offensive to females.
  Take a look at this list of exclusionary words and their alternatives." (infoplease.com)

Cliparts / Photos :

Facts :

• How to be a Mr Modern Manners
  "Iain Hollingshead offers a guide to chivalry for the confused and fallible 21st-century male."
  (telegraph.co.uk)

  

• The Female Character Flowchart - an infographic "classifying female characters in movies, anime, literature, comics, and television." (Neatorama)
  (overthinkingit.com)

  

• Women-only frustration venting store opens in Shenyang
  "Breaking things to vent frustration is a normal phenomenon when people get upset, but usually such behavior would be stopped by others. 
  Recently, a Shenyang shopping mall opened a special store for people to break all kinds of things to relieve pressure and bad mood for a minute
  in Shenyang. But beware! It's for women only!"
  (english.people.com.cn)

  

• Wives spend 'six days a year' nagging their husbands "about household chores, their drinking and their health."
  (dailymail.co.uk)

  

• Men are bigger liars than women, says poll
  "Men are more likely to tell lies than women and feel less guilty about it...
  the average British man tells three lies every day, that's equivalent to 1,092 a year...
  Mums are the people mostly likely to be lied to."
  + MEN'S TOP 10 LIES - 1. I didn't have that much to drink
  + WOMEN'S TOP 10 LIES - 1. Nothing's wrong, I'm fine
  (BBC)

• What is Women's Equality Day ? - August 26
  "The date was selected to commemorate the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote..."
  (nwhp.org)

International Day for the Elimination of violence against women :

• International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women - 25 November
  "Women's activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981.
  This date came from the brutal assassination in 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961)."
  (un.org)
  See Wikipedia - World Health Organization

Listening :

• Gender gap : 3 dossiers de ressources sur le blog VIGILANGUES : 1      2     3   
  (sabironlangues.typepad.fr)

• Being a man + Being a woman
  audio + subtitles + questions
  (elllo.org)

Conversation Questions :

• Gender Roles (iteslj.org)

• Feminism (idebate.org)
  Is feminism still relevant? - Pros and Cons

Signs :

• Restroom
  
  

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• feminine / masculine - exercice interactif (Ghislaine Wulles)

Activities TO PRINT :

• Gender gap : 3 dossiers de ressources sur le blog VIGILANGUES : 1      2     3   
  (sabironlangues.typepad.fr)

• Men vs Woman : gender role and gender gap
  
  - a worksheet and
  - a PowerPoint presentation created by Florence Duperray
  (with the help of Marie-Madeleine Cloup Speer)
  (Académie de Lyon)

  

   

• A picnic...
  Worksheet + Picture 1 + Picture 2 + Picture 3 + Picture 4
  (Armelle Meyer - Ac. Bordeaux)
  

  

• Women's Equality Quiz (nwhp.org)

Lesson plans :

• British Car Insurance Gender Inequality Ends (2nd March, 2011) - a lesson plan
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

• Men Hurt More in Rocky Relationships - a lesson plan
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)
  
  
  
  

  Study finds men are more emotionally hurt than women over bad relationships
  (nydailynews.com)
  
  
  
  

• Men vs. Women: gender gap, gender roles - Ideas for the classroom
  (absolutenglish.free.fr)

  

• Expanding Pre-conceived Beliefs About Sex Roles - a lesson plan - UPDATED
  "Children look at the daily activities of their parents to determine if some jobs are for "women only" and "men only," or if most activities can be
  performed by both men and women."
  (lessonopoly.org)

• Men more attracted by women in red - a lesson plan
  (Breaking News English)
  
  
  

• Australia mayor seeks ‘ugly’ women - a lesson plan
  (Breaking News English)

  

• Women's rights.
  "Take a look at the articles, story, word game, cartoon, trivia and links."
  (British Council)

  

• Japanese women to have more equality - a lesson plan
  with "a news article, listening (MP3 file), podcast, communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises."
  (Breaking News English)
  
  

Webquests :

• WOMEN WILL RULE THE WORLD! - A WEB QUEST
  (cecnbouvier.educanet2.ch:80)

  

• Famous couples - a webquest (Ac. Nancy-Metz)
  Romeo and Juliet - Victoria and Albert - Tarzan and Jane - Bonnie and Clyde - Charles and Diana -
  Homer Simpson and Marge Bouvier
  
  

INTERACTIVE games :

• "Guess the sex of these names! (kyoto-su.ac.jp)
  Some names are commonly used for both men and women,
  so there are three choices 'Male,' 'Female' or 'Both'."

Proverbs :

• A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
  "A feminist slogan, suggesting that men are superfluous to women's needs."
  (phrases.org.uk)

  

Poems :

• A woman needs a man... - a poem by Michael Leunig (bikereader.com)

  

Essays :

• Why I Want a Wife
  "by Judy Syfers (1971) - A wickedly humorous introduction to the sex roles defined by conventional marriage. 
  A man named Adam Ayds wrote a 1995 answer to this essay which you may read HERE ." 
  (cwluherstory.org)

Cartoons :

	Gender gap (paw.princeton.edu)
Annette can't come to the phone... (cartoonstock.com)	3 generations 1950 / 1975 / 2000 (antoineerrasti.files.wordpress.com)	Thank God, you're a man - Publicité pour la bière Goldstar (4.bp.blogspot.com)
Washing Instructions - a label (p10.hostingprod.com/ @spyblog.org.uk)	I'm suing you for discrimination (capc.co.uk)	A sign (myconfinedspace.com)
The stages of man (bp3.blogger.com)	Secret shopper (img.dailymail.co.uk)	Sales (cartoonstock.com)
Men - they're all alike! (cartoonstock.com)	Men at work (joe-ks.com)	Waiting for the perfect man (wolfescape.com)
	Silence... (Site unknown)	Driving
The woman's garage (ahajokes.com)	Evolution of man and woman (pagetutor.com)	I wish for... (funnyhub.com)
The difference between men and women (247weight.com)	A picnic... Worksheet + Picture 1 + Picture 2 + Picture 3 + Picture 4 (Armelle Meyer - Ac. Bordeaux)	The Difference Between Men and Women (joe-ks.com)

Jokes :

• WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF I DIED? Would you get married again? (greatgolfjokes.com)

• HOW TO IMPRESS A WOMAN... and HOW TO IMPRESS A MAN...
  (ekmekci.com)

• Dogs Versus Women
  26 reasons why men have 2 dogs and not 2 wives
  (mamarocks.com)

  

Videos :

• Equals
  JAMES BOND SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2011
  "The two-minute short, specially commissioned for International Women's Day, sees 007 star Daniel Craig undergo a dramatic makeover as he puts himself, quite literally, in a woman's shoes."
  (YouTube)
  + the script

  

   

• Gender Inequity: The Moral Challenge of this Century - with a quiz
  Difficulty: Easy
  (englishcentral.com)

  

   

• How can it be - Mira Nair
  - with subtitles
  "Part of the film "8", Mira Neir delivers a film on gender equality."
  (YouTube)

  

• Mark Gungor - Men's Brain Women's Brain
  (YouTube)

  

• Understanding Men... Beer Comercial - Funny
  (YouTube)

  

• Gender Stereotyping of Women in the Media
  (YouTube)

  

• Women Know Your Limits (YouTube)

  

• A Men's Room Monologue
  "A funny animated movie about the various problems involved in using a public men's bathroom."
  (YouTube)
  
  

• The Ladies Room Monologues
  A funny animated movie about what goes on in a public women's bathroom.
  (vimeo.com)
  
  

• Harry Enfield - Women, Know Your Limits (You Tube)

  

• Female and Male - a FLASH animation (You Tube)
  

• Males and Females. A Flash animation by Bozzetto
  Watch the animation, "then say if the statement is right or wrong according to the author."
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  
  

Songs :

• Taylor Swift - Mean (YouTube) + LYRICS (paroles-musique.com)
  "You, with your words like knives
  And swords and weapons that you use against me...
  Someday, I’ll be living in a big old city,
  And all you’re ever gonna be is mean.
  Someday, I’ll be big enough so you can’t hit me..."

  
  
  English Through Music: Taylor Swift’s Song, “Mean”
  Read and listen to the article. Then, open the activities on the right side of the page to learn English. Skill Level: BEGINNER
  (voanews.com)

  Activities :
  

  • Vocabulary Skills: Taylor Swift
  • Main Idea: Taylor Swift
  • Facts: Taylor Swift
  • Listening Skills: Taylor Swift
  • Expand Your English: Taylor Swift
    
    
    

• If I were a boy - sung by Beyonce + LYRICS :
  "If I were a boy
  Even just for a day
  I'd roll outta bed in the morning
  And throw on what I wanted then go
  Drink beer with the guys
  And chase after girls..."
  (musicloversgroup.com)
  
  
• Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World sung by U2
  "Nothin' much to say I guess
  You're just the same as all the rest
  Been tryin' to throw your arms around the world
  And a woman needs a man
  Like a fish needs a bicycle"
  (sing365.com)

• Woman Is The Nigger Of The World by John Lennon
  
  
  
• Woman by Neneh Cherry :
  "This is a woman's world
  For this man's girl.
  There ain't a woman in this world,
  Not a woman or a little girl,
  That can't deliver love
  In a man's world."
  - with the VIDEO (You Tube)

• It's A Man's Man's Man's World by James Brown :
  "This is a man's world
  But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl."
  - with the VIDEO (You Tube)

• Boys Don't Cry by The Cure

• Songs about Sexism and Gender Equity (edchange.org)

• I'm a Man by Bo Diddley

• Respect by Aretha Franklin :
  "R-E-S-P-E-C-T
  Find out what it means to me"

Posters :

• What a woman may be, and yet not have the vote - What a man may have been, and yet not lose the vote
  
  
  
  - a poster (learnhistory.org.uk)