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culturally relevant gender based analysis: a tool

culturally relevant gender based analysis: a tool. Aboriginal Experiences in Aging Symposium Saskatoon, SK SEPT2008. What is GBA?. Gender Based Analysis identifies the differential impacts of policy on gender, and provides options to create more equitable outcomes. Equity vs. Equality.

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culturally relevant gender based analysis: a tool

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  1. culturally relevant gender based analysis: a tool Aboriginal Experiences in Aging Symposium Saskatoon, SK SEPT2008

  2. What is GBA? Gender Based Analysis identifies the differential impacts of policy on gender, and provides options to create more equitable outcomes Native Women’s Association of Canada

  3. Equity vs. Equality Gender Equality means that women and men are treated equally and enjoy the same status Gender Equity moves beyond the importance of equal treatment to focus on equality of results. Native Women’s Association of Canada

  4. Why Cultural Relevance? There is a need to move beyond gender and conventional GBA to incorporate Indigenous worldview and promote cultural continuity There is a need to examine gendered Aboriginal identity and how the dominant culture’s imposed beliefs have shaped gender, and our cultural, economic, social, and political status in society There is a need to look at the underlying factors behind Aboriginal women’s consistently poor health Native Women’s Association of Canada

  5. Impacts • Poverty • Educational barriers • Violence against Aboriginal women • Lack of accountability • Environment and connections to the land • Loss of Identity Native Women’s Association of Canada

  6. How are the Impacts Perpetuated? Social exclusion as a social determinant of health • Systemic Discrimination • Gendered Racism • Lateral Violence How do we overcome the impacts of social exclusion? Native Women’s Association of Canada

  7. Crgba: Principle #1 Revitalize the value of Aboriginal women’s roles within Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal society and reconnect race and gender to positively impact health and healing Native Women’s Association of Canada

  8. “It is not solely my gender through which I first experience the world; it is my culture that precedes my gender. Actually if I am the object of some form of discrimination, it is very difficult for me to separate what happens to me because of my gender and what happens to me because of my race and culture. My world is not experienced in a linear and compartmentalized way. I experience the world simultaneously as Mohawk and as woman. To artificially separate my gender from my race and culture forces me to deny the way I experience the world. Such denial has devastating effects on Aboriginal constructions of reality.” Native Women’s Association of Canada

  9. Crgba: Principle #2 Embrace Aboriginal culture and the principles of balance and equilibrium, with gender being one component of balance. Native Women’s Association of Canada

  10. Crgba: Principle #3 Comply with the laws of the Creator and Aboriginal world view and law, inherent right, Constitution, and International law Native Women’s Association of Canada

  11. Crgba: Principle #4 Capture diversity and different circumstances of Aboriginal women based on their distinctive cultures and cultural practices Native Women’s Association of Canada

  12. THANK YOU. Native Women’s Association of Canada

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