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Aims of Gender Sensitivity Training
Develop gender awareness, knowledge, and skills
as well as to change perceptions, attitudes and
behaviors in relation to gender.
Gender Sensitivity
- is the ability to recognize gender issues,
and especially the ability to recognize
women’s different perceptions and interests
arising from their different social location and
different gender roles.
Four Premises of GAD
1. GAD is not a war of the sexes;
2. GAD is not anti-male;
3. Both men and women are victims of gender inequality,
although victims are more often women than male; and
4. Both women and men have a share in the struggle for
gender equality.
Sex and Gender
Sex is …
biological characteristics of being a female or a
male.
Physical attributes pertaining to a person’s
body contours, features, hormones, genes,
chromosomes and reproductive organs.
generally permanent
universal
categorize as male and female
attributes are equally valued
Primary sex characteristics
refers to the sexual and reproductive organs.
Primary Sex Characteristics
MEN
penis, testes (androgen and testosterone),
scrotum, sperm, vas deferens, etc.
WOMEN
Uterus, ovary (estrogen and
progesterone)
ovum, fallopian tubes cervix, vagina,
clitoris, etc. Women can become
pregnant.
Secondary Sex Characteristics
development of the breast
pelvic widens & hips broaden
voice deepens slightly
hair grown under the
arms & in the pelvic region
ovaries start to function
regular menstruation
Secondary Sex Characteristics
the body become more muscular
shoulder & chest become broader
adam’s apple grows
vocal cord enlarge
underarm, pubic hair & hair on the face,
chest & shoulders start to grow
penis & testes enlarge
testes begin to make sperm
What is Sex Roles ?
A function in which a male or female
assumes because of the basic
physiological or anatomical
difference between the sexes.
A role which can be performed
by only one of the sexes.
Sex Roles
Female Male
Child- bearing Ovum
Lactation fertilization
Gestation Produces
spermatozoa
which determine
child’s sex
What is
Gender?
Gender refers to .. assigned by
culture and
society to
differentiated women and men.
roles, attitudes
and values
Gender refers to ..
Expectation held about the
characteristics, aptitudes,
and likely behaviors of both
women and men.
What is Gender ?
Sociologically constructed changing, time
and place bound changing, time and
place bound present in both women and
men categorize as feminine and
masculine attributes are marked by
inequality
What is Gender Role?
are
learned behaviors in given society or
community of social groups and
influenced by perceptions and
expectations
arising from cultural, economic,
environmental, social and religious
factors.
Gender Roles
Women Men
Cooking Leader
Childcare Providing
Housekeeping
income for
the family
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