Is GCSE PE sexist?

PE lessons are basically taught in a sexist way, according to a senior Tory MP.

While I know boys and girls are separated, is the PE curriculum sexist in favour of boys?

PE lessons are basically taught in a sexist way, according to a senior Tory MP.

While I know boys and girls are separated, is the PE curriculum sexist in favour of boys?

The word "sexist" isn't mentioned once. That's something that you invented for yourself and attributed to the CMS committee.

There's also no mention at all of GCSE PE. You made that up as well.

On point - it depends on how you want to look at things. In this country, we swing wildly from one extreme to the other bitching like crazy about how we need to widen sport and include things like spinning and zumba - and then the next minute wringing our hands at why we don't win at team sports.

I personally think that whilst there should be more choice, there should be compulsion to take part in at least some team sport. Otherwise, you're doing no more than playing up to the TSR trope of being introverted and anti-social and leaving people alone simply because they want to be. Team sports need not be highly competitive, but the social aspect needs to be there. If school teams went further down the ability order so that there were (for example) netball 3rd, 4th and 5th teams, as well intramural only teams, then that would improve things dramatically.

1. Sexism = attitudes or behaviour based on traditional stereotypes of sexual roles, which is what the article suggests with PE

2. I'm not making up GCSE PE, I'm merely asking the question because I think it relates to it specifically as it's the first major PE qualification and girls might feel disadvantaged within that.

That's not a description of sexism which I recognise, nor is it in anyway representative of the what the CMS reported. They suggested that girls' sport could be different and more individual. On what planet is that inferring sex discrimination?





You made a quantum leap from one thing to the next, and GCSE PE is not even mentioned. And for good reason. It would be absurd. Take your jump to its logical conclusion, and in the name of equality, you'd have a boys being assessed (at GCSE) on football and rugby; and someone having to sit down and work out how to assess GCSE Zumba or spinning.