{"id":30191,"date":"2016-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/no-gender-december-be-careful-buying-xmas-presents-this-year\/"},"modified":"2016-12-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T00:00:00","slug":"no-gender-december-be-careful-buying-xmas-presents-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/no-gender-december-be-careful-buying-xmas-presents-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Gender December\u2019 &#8212; Be careful buying Xmas presents this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The toys boys and girls play with can impact what jobs they work later in life, says the CEO of the Good Education Group.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been some studies done,\u201d Chris Lester tells FIVEAA brekkie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a correlation between the toys that boys and girls play with and the subjects that they go on to do at school and university &#8212; and the jobs that they do later on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris said \u2018No Gender December\u2019 was part of a campaign to encourage more girls to study science, technology, engineering and maths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more just a matter of making people aware,\u201d he said. \u201cSome of these toys are great and boys and girls can play with either. Actually disseminating what\u2019s a boy or a girl toy is what we want to focus on and then seeing how that might play out from an education perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/297438652&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chris said department stores these days did a good job of not \u201csegregating boys and girls toys\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a big push and they\u2019ve all made a big effort to stop that. But if you see some of the stuff that\u2019s on TV now, you can see it\u2019s still occurring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of those prejudices that come through particularly early from TV shows etc. do have a part to play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a matter of determining what really people want without being forced into a particular area and allowing them to focus on what they\u2019d like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But do we \u201cworry too much about this sort of stuff?\u201d David Penberthy wondered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I buy makeup for my niece and I buy some sort of microscope for my nephew, I\u2019m not doing that because I\u2019m determined to make sure that my niece doesn\u2019t study engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it makes me a misogynist &#8212; maybe a sloppy shopper.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/reporter-who-gave-ben-cousins-a-lift-is-extremely-concerned\"><strong>SHOCK COMMENT FROM REPORTER WHO GAVE BEN COUSINS A LIFT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/kane-cornes-tips-a-christmas-gift-for-sports-lovers\"><strong>KANE CORNES TIPS XMAS GIFT FOR SPORTS LOVERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The toys boys and girls play with can impact what jobs they work later in life, says the CEO of the Good Education Group. \u201cThere\u2019s been some studies done,\u201d Chris Lester tells FIVEAA brekkie. \u201cThere is a correlation between the toys that boys and girls play with and the subjects that they go on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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