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Gender Sensitization and Sex Education in schools

Schools in principle provide a safe space. The only prerogative of schools is not to teach you Trigonometry, French Revolution or Halogenation of Carbon etc. but also to make sure a child's holistic development take place, where he/she can have their own world view and can differentiate between right and wrong, thus schools play a very important role in shaping a person for the society and it's not presumptuous to say it's a child's second home.   Patriarchy is deep rooted in the society and the solidification of gender stereotypes has ghettoized men and women to certain gender specific roles and has eradicated the difference between Sex and Gender.   Gender sensitisation refers to bring about empathy towards the opposite gender and to ensure that people examine their attitude and personal beliefs about the opposite gender and question notions which reinforce discrimination.   In conversation with Pratisandhi, a youth-led organisation which is working extensively to dri