REPLAY Children's Play and the Construction of Gender

Today we replay a show where we discussed gender. As human beings, we are assigned a gender, most of the time before we are even born. The gender that we are assigned at birth has real social implications as we grow up with increasing pressure to fit into the boxes created for both men and women, girls and boys, and for what? What is the purpose of the construction of gender, how is gender enforced, how do we learn and teach about gender in order to build a better world? We spoke with, Afsaneh Moradian, an author and educator in Oaxaca, Mexico. We were also joined in studio by educator and activist Carly Fox.