The review, conducted by Dr Linda Papadopoulos, said schools need to play a bigger role in helping young people understand sexualisation and interpret sexualised imagery.
It calls for training for all school staff on gender equality and urges the Department for Children and Schools and Families to issue statutory guidance requiring schools to specifically tackle gender inequality.
Issues such as gender stereotypes and pornography also need to be included in sex and relationship education guidance. according to the report.
The review is part of the government's Violence Against Women and girls strategy.
Children's minister Delyth Morgan said: "Personal, social and health education already includes teaching about advertising and body image and from 2011 will include issues around violence against women and girls.
"We are supporting schools with new guidance to help raise awareness among teachers about violence against women and girls, so that they can prevent and respond to these issues, and to show them how to address it in the curriculum."
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