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3.2 1. Values and Attitudes - Sexy Relay Race
Choose only one of the two exercises about values and attitudes, either ‘Sexy Relay Race’ or
‘Statements and Proverbs’. Both exercises explain the difference between sex and gender. The
Sexy Relay Race deals mainly with the difference between biological and social roles of men and
women while ‘Statements and Proverbs’ further addresses the social norms and values attached to
the roles of men and women.
Objectives
• To understand the difference between biological and social roles of men and women
• To introduce the concepts sex and gender
Target group
• Both men or women together or separately
• All ages
• All educational levels
• Rural and urban areas
Material
• Two flipchart papers
• Markers in different colours
Exercise
Step 1
• Place two flipcharts papers at a place where everyone can easily see them
• Divide the participants into two teams, preferably mixed groups in terms of age and sex
• Explain the exercise to the teams:
- The sexy relay race is a drawing competition on the images of a man and a woman
- One team will draw a man and the other team will draw a woman
- Each team needs to come up with a full image from top to toe
- It is a race: the first person of each team starts by drawing one line and then runs back to
hand over the marker to the second person who adds a new line, and so on
- The team which has made the clearest image will be the winner
• Both teams should line up in a row about two meters in front of the flipchart papers
• After 5-10 minutes, announce that there are only a few minutes left, to keep a fast pace in high
spirits
• Stop the exercise when both drawings show several clear biological and social characteristics
of a woman and a man respectively (for example, breasts for a woman, beard for a man, the
sexual organs, a baby on the woman’s arm or back, bulging muscles in the arms of the man,
differences in clothes and hair style).
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