For this purpose, we have had the collaboration of the Parallel Association, which has accessed the library of a center for Early Childhood and Primary Education, and has researched its books from a gender perspective. They waited for some of the tendencies and stereotypes they have seen in the stories, other data have surprised them badly, as we told in this article: the writers of the stories are mainly men, the protagonists are more than girls, the stories often reproduce sexist stereotypes… “You don’t see women lawyers or mayors,” said Oihana Llorente Parean. Many times we say that girls can be astronauts and we have to put benchmarks of this kind on the table, but we are a long way from that, imagine that our daughters don’t see that women are in the labor world!”

Based on this research, the association has organized a lecture cycle "Transforming from the roots, entrenching equality" to reflect on the role that gender can play in children's and youth literature. This Wednesday there will be a colloquium with children's literature writer Lur Gallastegi Zendegi (at the Tobbaco Days library in San Sebastian, at 18:30 a.m.); illustrator Ainara Azpiazu Axpi will offer an illustration session aimed at young people between 8 and 13 years old (May 26, at 17:30 a.m. in the Renteria Kuleona concert

Princes also swell

Stories are not safe from sexist models, but there are other examples in the literature, of course. In collaboration with the bookstore and publishing company Katakrak, the association has published a guide. In the collection they have advised Pink Monster, I would also like a mango, Arthur and Klementina, Butterfly ears, The median crab in the world, Princes also bid, The war does not stop, The mother goes up the world, The pirate Daniela, Leotolde, Pippi for the sea, Atriman, Marimao, El