GAD - WEEK 3 (PRELIMS)

Culture

This is the distinctive patterns of ideas, beliefs, and norms which characterize the way of life and relations of a society.

Culture

They also influence access to and control over resources and participation and decision making.

Male power

Culture has gender ideologies that often reinforce ___ and the idea of women’s inferiority.

True

Gender varies across cultures. True or false?

Gender Analysis

This is the systematic gathering and examination of information on gender differences and social relations in order to identify, understand, and redress inequities based on gender.

Gender Discrimination

This is the systematic, unfavorable treatment of individuals on the basis of their gender, which denies them rights, opportunities or resources.

Discrimination

This is the prejudice against a person based on arbitrarily attributed characteristic (such as gender pay gap, glass ceiling)

Gender Division of Labor

This is practices which define what roles and activities are deemed appropriate for women and men. This results in context- specific patterns of who does what by gender and how this is valued.

Productive Role

This is under the gender division of labor, a community role in where it says production of goods and services for exchange rather than for personal or immediate consumption, usually for a corresponding fee.

Reproductive Role

This is under the gender division of labor, a community role, where it says biological reproduction and tasks are usually associated with it. It is necessary for survival but given no economic value.

Gender Equality

This denotes women having the same opportunities in life as men, including the ability to participate in the public sphere.

Gender Equity

This denotes the equivalence in life outcomes for women and men, recognizing their different needs and interests, and requiring a redistribution of power and resources.

Gender Mainstreaming

This is an organizational strategy to bring a gender perspective to all aspects of an institution’s policy and activities, through building gender capacity and accountability.

Gender Needs

This is the shared and prioritized needs identified by women that arise from their common experiences as a gender.

Gender Needs

Strategic ___ are those needs identified by women that require strategies for challenging male dominance and privilege.

Practical gender needs and Strategic gender needs

What are two kinds of gender needs?

Practical Gender Needs

This is related to immediate needs of living, such as food, drinking water, health care and medical support.

Strategic Gender Needs

This is related to gender divisions of labor, equal wages, resources and education, and women’s control over their bodies. This is also necessary for political reforms as they are seen as relatively long-term objectives.

Gender Planning

This is the technical and political processes and procedures necessary to implement gender-sensitive policy and practice.

Gender Planning

This is to ensure gender-sensitive policy outcomes through a systematic and inclusive process.

Gender Relations

This is the hierarchical relations of power between women and men that tend to

disadvantage women. ___ constitute and are constituted by a range of institutions, such as the family, legal systems or the market.

Gender Training

This is a facilitated process of developing awareness and capacity on gender issues to bring about personal or organizational change for gender equality.

Gender Violence

This is an act or threat by men or male-dominated institutions, that inflicts physical, sexual or psychological harm on a woman or girl because of their gender.

Patriarchy

This is a systemic societal structures that institutionalize male physical, social and economic power over women.

Patriarchy

This is a culture that systematically privileges a certain group, rich, male, white, heterosexual, masculine, able-bodied, young- while disadvantaging all others.

Women’s Empowerment

This is a a “bottom-up” process of transforming gender power relations, through individuals or groups developing awareness of women’s subordination and building their capacity to challenge it.

Women’s Human Rights

This is the recognition that women’s rights are human rights and that women experience solely because of their gender.