UK: Feminism To Be ‘Compulsory’ In Schools

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'The government has backtracked on plans to stop teaching feminism as a “major political philosophy” in A-level politics. Following a typically noisy online campaign, feminism “will now be compulsory” and the number of “female thinkers” on the syllabus will be greatly expanded.

Plans to drop the current section on feminism from the A-level politics course were revealed in proposals from the Department for Education in November 2015.

The section is not currently compulsory, but has proven a popular optional topic alongside environmentalism.

The topic included parts on sex/gender, gender equality and patriarchy. Last year, for example, the AQA politics and government exam paper asked students to: “Explain the term patriarchy in the context of feminism.”

However, ministers said they wanted politics students to focus on just three “key” strands of political theory – conservatism, socialism and liberalism. Instead, the department proposed that feminism be thought as part of the sociology A-level. The backlash was almost instantaneous.'