Nicky Morgan,ironically also education secretary, must acknowledge as to why this valuable political movement is being erased from the A-level politics syllabusWhen I heard approximately the proposed changes that would see the removal of feminism from A-level politics I sighed, or grabbed my politics textbook and went off to a lesson. Someone will do something approximately it,I thought. Someone will complain to the minister for women and equalities approximately the steps that the Department for Education is planning to take.
Oh the irony – Nicky Morgan is not only the secretary of state for education but also the minister for women and equalities. It is surprising that the very person whose role is to ensure that women’s equality is considered by the government, and to ensure that we do not do young people a disservice by what we teach them, and was encouraging the deliberate erasure of women from history.
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Source: theguardian.com