Resetting the Default: How gender equality can lead us to a better world-a practical guide

Gender stereotypes are still holding strong. In society a whole belief system exists around boys and girls, men and women. It is a binary belief system that defines how biological men and women are expected to behave, what competencies we are supposed to have and what we are thought to like. Think of pink for girls, blue for boys, emphatic for women, athletic for men. Virtually nothing escapes our wish to put things in the right box. Unfortunately, these gender boxes impose a double standar...