In the classroom, the biggest thing I've seen is the child's flexibility and willingness to try activities that have something to do with gender, be it block-building, model cars, the housekeeping center with baby bottles, diapers. Years ago, children would have a lot of difficulty with that. Now we see a willingness to play with all the activities. We choose girls and boys to play the gingerbread man. One of the things that we see is the attitudes of the kids have changed because they will verbalize things.
Girls can pass trash cans.
A lot of the conversation that comes up around genders is when we study careers. In the classroom books, it would show the moms there with the aprons cooking or at the sink. The dads would always be raking, driving the car or washing the car. In Canton, we have had workshops on gender equity, sexual harassment and gender bias. We were asked to have someone observe us and kind of make tally marks on how many times you called on certain kids, males versus females.