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Assumptions About Gender Roles Are Turned Around at School Career Day

When a real-life firefighter, surgeon, and fighter pilot drop in on a classroom, these kids have their assumptions turned around.

This video by MullenLowe London brings us career day at a primary school in England. ​Students are asked to draw a firefighter, surgeon, and fighter pilot​, and​ are quite surprised when the women who do these real​-​life​ ​occupations join them in class.

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