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Basic Concept of Gender

Basic Concept of Gender. ? ? ?. Let’s have a look…. Sex Biological differences between men and women. Not vary with race, caste, class, ethnicity, religion, and time. Women’s ability to give birth, breast feed. Gender Social differences between men and women

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Basic Concept of Gender

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  1. Basic Concept of Gender

  2. ??? Let’s have a look…

  3. Sex Biological differences between men and women. Not vary with race, caste, class, ethnicity, religion, and time. Women’s ability to give birth, breast feed. Gender • Social differences between men and women • Manifested in different roles, qualities and behaviors of women, men and society as a whole. • Vary with race, caste, class, ethnicity, religion, relation position, situations, age, time. • Vary with situations, the same person may behave differently in different contexts.

  4. Gender roles • Refers to socially differentiated roles of men and women • Gender roles can be changed easily through sensitization of women and men. • Productive Role • Reproductive role • Community Role

  5. Gender roles Women’s Double Day Triple Role

  6. Gender Needs • Practical gender needs (PGN): • Related to immediate needs of living, such as food, drinking water, health care and medical support. • Strategic gender needs (SGN): • Related to gender divisions of labor, equal wages, resources and education, and women’s control over their bodies. • Necessary to encompass social and political reforms for ensuring power and control, legal rights, reduce domestic violence, . • These measures are seen as relatively long-term objectives.

  7. Gender Equality and Equity Gender Equity Gender Equality VS Gender Equality Gender Equity

  8. Gender sensitization tools

  9. Tool-1: Gender Equity Analysis Education Education Education Asset Asset Asset Control Control Control Right Right Right Power Power Power Inequity Inequity Equity

  10. Tool-2: Access -Control Analysis MEN WOMEN Red = Low Yellow = Moderate Green = High

  11. Access • Availability- can own Asset • Handiness- Able to use when required • Control • Authority/Autonomy- Right or permission or liberty to use the asset (Sell) • Decision making- power to make decisions within the household and community • Command- Access power to direct or regulate resource • ability to use effectively • Power- to influence or direct people’s behavior or the course of events.

  12. Tool-3: Time Meter Tool

  13. Tool-4: Barrier Tree Analysis Effect Branches Barrier Stem Root Causes

  14. Four Major Women Barriers

  15. Women’s Empowerment Framework • (CARE Framework)

  16. Women’s Empowerment in Programming CARE defines WE as the combined effect of changes in:

  17. CARE’S Women’s Empowerment : Theory of Change Women will be empowered by: Exercise of greater choice in decisions affecting their lives Strong Social Movements based on solidarity between men and women Reduce violence against women x +

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