Gender equality

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/royal-brunei-airlines-first-all-female-flight-deck-crew-lands-plane-in-saudi-arabia-where-women-are-a6931726.html

Royal Brunei Airlines landed a plane in Saudi Arabia with an all-female flight crew for the first time, to celebrate Brunei's National Day on 23rd February. The plane landed in a country where women are still not allowed to drive a car.

Captain Czarena said, "Being a pilot, people normally see it as being a male dominated occupation. As a woman, a Bruneian woman, it is such a great achievement. It's really showing the younger generation, or the girls especially that whatever they dream of , they can achieve it."

What's happening in this photo?

explain the photo

- What jobs do these women have?

- Why was this story in the news?

- Would this story still have been in the news if the plane had landed in the UK? Why not?

- What law in the UK makes discrimination against women illegal? (The Equality Act 2010)

- What message do these women hope to give to people in Saudi Arabia?

- What does this photo show about the world today? 

- What can we learn from these women? 

This picture works as a great starter discussion activity to the lesson plan for "The Flower" by John Light, in "No Outsiders in our school: Teaching the Equality Act in Primary Schools"