1 / 14

Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equity

Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equity. CARE GED 101. Overview. Gender: what and why? CARE’s Women’s Empowerment (WE) framework & key concepts Men and Boys. Gender is a social construct. Courtesy of: National Geographic Channel. Gender is a social construct.

dannon
Download Presentation

Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equity

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equity CARE GED 101

  2. Overview • Gender: what and why? • CARE’s Women’s Empowerment (WE) framework & key concepts • Men and Boys

  3. Gender is a social construct Courtesy of: National Geographic Channel

  4. Gender is a social construct Courtesy Sonke Gender Justice Network

  5. WHY focus on gender? • “We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security.” • CARE’s core values of Respect, Integrity, Commitment and Excellence promotes diversity and gender equity, choice and dignity for all. • We believe we can more effective in our programs.

  6. CARE’s efforts to advance Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment • 4 year investment in a Strategic Impact Inquiry • Development of a women’s empowerment framework • Institutional commitment: GED trainings • CI Gender Policy

  7. WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT is the sum total of changes needed for a woman to realize her full human rights – the interplay of changes in:

  8. CARE’s Women’s Empowerment Framework

  9. Girls’ Leadership

  10. Long-term goal • Absence of discrimination based on sex • Equality between men and women exists when both sexes are able to share equally in the distribution of power and influence Gender Equality

  11. Gender equity is the process of being fair to women and men. • To ensure fairness, strategies and measures must often be available to compensate for women’s historical and social disadvantages that prevent women and men from otherwise operating on a level playing field. • Equity leads to equality. GENDER EQUITY

  12. Gender equity leads to gender equality GENDER EQUALITY GENDER EQUITY Engaging men and boys equal access to social provisions equal treatment before the law Equal access to education Women’s empowerment & girls’ leadership is a critical aspect of promoting gender equality Quota for female representatives

  13. Important part of the equation A domain in the WE framework is RELATIONS What do men and boys have to do with it? Programming in Action: Burundi

  14. QUESTIONS? Thank you!

More Related