A scuola di pari opportunità. Il sistema scolastico: un circuito decisivo – ma trascurato – per educare al rispetto dell’identità e della differenza di genere

School can foster a deep cultural renewal by addressing whole generations of children and teenagers, along with their families. However, despite a widespread need to overcome prevailing patterns in symbolic order and social organization, revealed by lack of harmony at home, tensions resulting in violence, harassment and iniquities in the workplace… education policies and objectives aimed at teaching about gender citizenship and fostering non-discrimination culture do not get the deserved attention. \r\nBy sustaining these positions, the present paper summarizes the stance of Italian and northern European policies with regard to the binomial school education and gender difference. Meanwhile, the article tries to problematize some unavoidable conditions for attention on gender to foster a path of civilization, maturity and assumption of responsibilities on the part of a Country.