What do you see in the photo? What do you think the story is about?
Marina Gibson loves flyfishing and wants to be part of Britain's leading flyfishing club that already has 600 members, but she is not accepted.
What is flyfishing?
Can you guess why she is not accepted?
The club is 140 years old, King Charles III is patron. Yet the club has a rule that it is for men only.
When Marina asked to join, lots of the members offered her advice.
What advice you you think they offered?
- set up your own club for women
- join a different club for a different sport where women are allowed
- Visit the club in the evening (women are allowed in the evening, but not in the day)
Some were confused and asked why she wanted to join the club in the first place.
How would you respond to each of those suggestions?
Marina said, "I don't want to have to start up a women's only flyfishing club because they won't let us in to their one."
Why not? Wouldn't that be an easy solution?
Marina said, "I don't want to be called a fisherwoman. I don't want to be part of a women's-only fishing club. I just want to be equal."
If not a fisherwoman, what do you think Marina wants to be called? (Marina?)
Since the 1970s women have asked for the rules to be changed at the club but the rules never have been.
Women are asking why the rule exists; is it because long ago there was an idea that men can take the weekend off for leisure activities but women are expected to stay at home doing housework?
Is that idea still around today?
When the club president was asked to comment he said....
what would you like hear to him say, what do you expect to hear him say?
"The matter is under consideration by the general committee. No decision has been taken. Women can come for any event which is open."
What does he mean? Do you think that's good enough?
What message would you give to the chairman?
Why is this about No Outsiders?
Which British Value is this about?
No Outsiders: We belong here by Andrew Moffat (scheme of work for primary schools)
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