GENDER SENSITIVITY

AWARENESS
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HOW ABOUT THIS PICTURE?
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What do you think about this picture?
 WHAT IS THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
SEX AND GENDER?
What is Sex?
Maleness and femaleness of
an individual based on his/her
based on biological
characteristics e.g. genitals
(purely biological) Physique
and Physiology.

Males and females differ in:

-Chromosome make-up
-External organs
-Internal organs
What is Gender ?
expected behavior,
dispositions, roles and
positions that cultures assign
to men and women;
 characterized by social
determination, cultural
definition and time-space
boundary
 SEX-GENDER System
• A lot of cultures tend to
see gender as a natural
phenomenon deriving
from biological
differences between
women and men.
• This is what social
scientists call a sex-
gender system.
• However, understandings
of masculine or feminine
differ across culture or
geographic locations.

http://vi.sualize.us/view/156d1ae8b8b3955bb28c2454210e38b2/
• Sex Roles refer to an
occupation or biological
function for which a
necessary qualification
is to belong to one
particular sex category.
• Gender Roles- learned
behaviors in a given
society/community or
special group that
condition us to perceive
certain activities, tasks
and responsibilities as
male or female. http://womensenews.org/story/cultural-trendspopular-culture/100527/online-men-
say-are-willing-split-housework
Why SOCIETY perceived men
and women differently?
 GENDER ROLES
• Gender roles are • Society prescribes
taught and specific roles for girls
reinforced by and boys, women and
various social men, but values them
institutions. differently.
• Examples: • In almost all societies,
– Family girls and women are
– School valued less than boys
– Religious and men.
Institutions • Becomes the source
– Workplace of discrimination and
– Government oppression for
– Media women.
Theories behind the
near-universal
pattern
of gender roles
1. Strength Theory
• Men tend to get
assigned work
activities that require
physical strength and
mobilizing strength in
burst of energy such
as lifting heavy
objects, hunting large
animals, or clearing
land.
But women in some cultures
also perform these activities…
2. Compatibility
with child-care
Theory
• Women tend to
assigned work
activities that are
compatible with
caring for infants and
young children(e.g.
breast feeding)
3. Economy-of-effort Theory
• Women and men tend to
get assigned work
activities that are located
near each other.
( thus, if women have to be
near home, it would be
economical for them to
perform other chores that
are located in or near the
home.
Therefore, if men are at home…
 4. Expendability Theory
•Men tend to get assigned
on dangerous work
because reproductively
they are more expendable,
i.e. one man may father
many children but one
woman may carry at most
two children (twins) at a
time.
But now…
 GENDER ROLES

box women and men into

situations that constrain their
capacity
“to do” and “to be,”
hindering, in turn, their
potentials to attain a full and
satisfying life.
THEREFORE GENDER ROLES
RESULTS TO….
 PINK  BLUE
 DELICATE  STRONG
 SOFT & WEAK  ROUGH HOUSING
 NEEDS  PROVIDES
PROTECTION PROTECTION
AND CARE  NO CARE GIVING
 SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED
BEHAVIORS / PERCEPTIONS

 Strong
 Primary-
Boss/Head
 Sole Decision-
Maker
 Leader /Ruler
 Rational
 No Care-Giving
 MARGINALIZATION/
SUBORDINATION

• Treating a person (usually

women) as second-class
citizen

• Preventing or blocking a
person from going up the
ladder on the basis of
his/her sex
• Putting men or
women in a “box,”
thereby preventing
them from achieving
their full potentials

• Removing men or
women from the
mainstream of
society
 MULTIPLE BURDEN

Assumption and
performance of
several tasks or
responsibilities

http://unofficialprogrammer.wordpress.com/2011/
01/18/we-are-overburdened-yet-underpaid-
working-women/
 Gender Discrimination
• Differential treatment of individuals on the basis
of their gender. In many societies, this involves
systemic and structural discrimination against
women in the distribution of income, access to
resources, and participation in decision -making
(access to opportunities). It is the prejudicial
treatment of a person on the basis of a gender
stereotype.
How to correct the
misconceptions of
people/culture?
 Use Gender Lens
• Gender Lens a way of looking at a reality with
a gender sensitive eyes.
 GENDER SENSITIVITY

• is a frame of mind
• a set of attitude
• the way we approach
whatever we do in
our intimate
relationships, in our
work, in our
everyday
transactions with
the outside world
 Gender Sensitivity is just like using
senses

1. Seeing
2. Listening
3. Smelling
4. Touching
5. Tasting
We Uphold Shared Responsibilities!
Uphold Gender equality
 I DARE TO CARE GENDER
EQUALITY….

BEAR IN MIND….
DILI TANAN ATONG NAANDAN
TAMA…

DARE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!

REFERENCES
• Miriam College Wagi Slide
• Jhon J. Macionis 2003, Introduction to
Sociology
• AusAID 1997, Guide to Gender and
Development, AusAID, Canberra.
• www.google.com
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