Introduction- Gender and Society

Question 1

set of unreasonable attitude, usually unfavorable, toward members of a group.

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PREJUDICE

Question 2

overt negative behaviours toward a person based on his or her membership in a group.

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DISCRIMINATION

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any bias against an individual or group based on the individual’s or group’s sex.

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SEXISM

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baseless assumptions about the characteristics, attributes, and behaviours of members of certain groups.

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STEREOTYPES

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Strongly believed to be a social construction

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GENDER

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A casual notion of distinction as male or female, a man or woman, and boy or girl indicative of the stereotype generalization of the differences of each gender.

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GENDER

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can be affected by social factors and may also appear different from one society to another depending on the way the society evaluate and understand these unique roles.

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GENDER

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It is not just a mental construct but a tangible structural feature of society which provides sociological significance to society to device appropriate social controls among its members

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GENDER

Question 9

focus is on women’s access to food, contraceptives, nutrition and health care because they are seen as wives and mothers until the 60s.

during the 70s - 80s, the domestic sphere of women’s role were extended onto the global stage where the role of womenn was promoted as vital aid in early development.

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UNITED NATIONS CHARTER OF 1945 & UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN 1948

Question 10

Launched the UN Decade for Women and campaigned for the Women in Development (WID) which emphasises women’s rights to development and gave voice to women in developing countries.

There was little focus on men and on power relations between men and women.

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FIRST WORLD CONFERENCE FOR WOMEN IN MEXICO (1974)

Question 11

Developed during the 80s with the goal of improving the development model by removing disparities in social, economic, and political balances between women and men as a pre-condition for achieving people-centered development.

Unlike WID, the GAD approach is not concerned specifically with women, but with the way in which a society assign roles, responsibilities, and expectations on both men and women.

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GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT (GAD)

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• Focuses on social construction of identities within the household.
• Reveals the expectations from maleness and femaleness in their relative access to resources.

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GENDER ROLES

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• Exposes the social dimensions of hierarchical power relations embedded in social institutions.
• Determining influence on the relative position of men and women in the society.

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SOCIAL RELATIONS ANALYSIS

Question 14

Integrating gender into development planning in all sectors of society which requires a uniform understanding of various concepts. These concepts include the concept of gender as compared with sex, and the concept of mainstreaming itself.

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MAINSTREAMING

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The sustained capacity to achieve a better and quality life.

Hence, development is about expanding the range of choices for people.

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DEVELOPMENT

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Quality of life involves….?

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Capacity to do
and
Capacity to be

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Refers to the development perspective and process that is participatory and empowering, equitable, sustainable, free from violence, respectful of human rights, supportive of self-determination, and actualization of human potentials.

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GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT

Question 18

• Mandated all government agencies to review and revise al their regulations, circulars, issuances and procedures to
  remove gender biases therein.
• allocated at least 5% of their total budgets for gender and development concerns through the annual General Appropriations Act beginning 1995.

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THE WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT AND NATION-BUILDING ACT OF 1992