Gender: Meaning and definition - Difference between gender and sex - Gender roles in society: family, caste, class, religion, culture, the media and popular culture, law and the state (film, advertisements, songs, etc) - Reasons for gender inequalities - Gender-just education outside school settings.

Gender identity and socialization practices in family, school and organization - Role of school, peers, teachers, curriculum and textbooks in challenging gender inequalities or reinforcing gender parity - Actual gender roles and responsibilities assigned in schools and classrooms – Measurement of gender identity - discrimination of gender in classroom interactions, rituals and school/ routines - Processes of disciplining techniques for boys and girls - Analysis of sex-roles stereotype.

Representation of gender roles in school textbooks and curricula - Role of schools in nurturing or challenging young people as masculine and feminine selves - Integration of gender roles in school and curriculum - Gender issues in diverse cultural constraints: Teacher’s role - Developing positive attitude towards opposite genders in schools - gender bias in education - Transgender: providing opportunities for education, employment and life skills - Developing school curriculum for gender equality.

Safety of girls and women at school, home and workplace - Sexual abuse and violence: Role of education in preventing them - Meaning and concept of body objectification - Combating female body objectification: Role of teachers and parents.

Gender roles in mass media – Gender stereotypes in mass media - gender identity roles - Positive notions of body and self - Gender in media: magazines, TV shows, cartoons, movies and advertisements - Gender equality and language use.