I grew up I would like to be a hairdresser professional football usman a racing driver a doctor they already have their hopes and dreams for the future but new research shows that children as young as seven have a gender gap of their own men do more important jobs and women do like more interesting jobs men go into the army women do a lot of modeling the researchers asked children to draw what they wanted to be when they grow up more than five times the number of boys chose the Army in the fire service compared to
girls and nearly double were scientists more girls than boys hope to become teachers hairdressers and doctors and when asked to draw a picture of a firefighters surgeon and fighter pilot 92% drew them all as men once upon a time a hundred years ago there was a dark and stormy girl the girl was Russian children's author Catherine Randall believes girls are internalizing the wrong messages which are limiting their life choices I was just aware that we have grown up in a world that says to the boys go forth and conquer and the girls especially in a
blyton that says stick around and possibly do a bit of washing-up first and we no longer need to live by those rules women now outnumber men at British universities but even though they arrive here at Cambridge with equal grades more men leave with first-class degrees Dame Carol black principle of Newnham College says there's more to successful women than just academic achievement I sense that we've really worried about their actual academic achievements at school and ticking the boxes of will you get to a stars but maybe not being so sure that they are as confident as
we'd like them to be or as resilient noonim and all-female College now runs programs to empower women the participants told me they're worried not about their competence but about their confidence I've noticed a loss of more reticent in group discussions I think quite a lot of progress has been made in education for women but a lot of work that has to be done in employment do we are sort of bombarded with the media as well with different stereotypes and so it kind of is internalized with us that we see women behaving a certain way the
women's England cricket team has been challenging those gender expectations the team bathing and glory from winning the World Cup there's so many role models now across lots of different sports that yet really does give young children a chance to to look up to them and be inspired women have come a long ways since they gained the vote but girls could go even further if they were encouraged to look beyond the gender stereotypes Penny Marshall News at Ten you
