{"id":2378,"date":"2017-06-15T09:21:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T08:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2017-06-15T09:21:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T08:21:32","slug":"dont-wrap-girls-in-cotton-wool-says-private-school-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2017\/06\/15\/dont-wrap-girls-in-cotton-wool-says-private-school-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t wrap girls in cotton wool, says private school leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2379 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/06\/96490344_cherylgdst-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/06\/96490344_cherylgdst-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/06\/96490344_cherylgdst.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Parents and teachers should not &#8220;wrap girls in cotton wool&#8221;, an independent schools&#8217; leader has said.<\/p>\n<p>Girls were not victims and were stronger and more feisty than they were often given credit for, said Cheryl Giovannoni, chief executive of the Girls&#8217; Day School Trust (GDST).<\/p>\n<p>Ms Giovannoni said girls should be encouraged to take the sorts of risks boys were more likely to take.<\/p>\n<p>They should also be taught to say no and not always be willing to please. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-40278074\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and teachers should not &#8220;wrap girls in cotton wool&#8221;, an independent schools&#8217; leader has said. Girls were not victims and were stronger and more feisty than they were often given credit for, said Cheryl &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equality","category-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}