2014/03/14/Unisex rooms made gender insignificant in the army

title/short::Unisex rooms made gender insignificant in the army The unisex rooms made it possible to focus more on being in the army, said the young people. At home and at school it was more difficult to be friends with the opposite sex due to all the chatting up, whereas here girls and boys had to become friends.
 * when: when posted::2014/03/14
 * author: author::Ida Irene Bergstrøm
 * source: site::Kilden
 * topics: topic::gender inequity topic::gender equity topic::Norway topic::military topic::degenderization
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 * link: URL::http://eng.kilden.forskningsradet.no/c52778/nyhet/vis.html?tid=87528
 * title: title::Unisex rooms made gender insignificant in the army
 * summary: "The researchers behind a new report on gender equality in the Norwegian army describe the phenomenon as “degenderisation”. When boys and girls shared the same room, gender was no longer significant."

“You have to be a team here, and then you have to live together in order to be able to trust in one another”, said one of the girls. So it was important that the girls did not form cliques and began slandering, as they had done in school. Unisex rooms were simply a “damn good idea”.

The boys appreciated the fact that it became easier to talk about more important things in life, not only dirty talk, when there were girls present in the rooms.