Gender Sensitization

Gender Sensitization Cell

Auroras Degree and PG College,
Hyderabad

[ with grateful thanks to many sources ]

Facilitator
Prof. V. Viswanadham
Viswam.vangapally@gmail.com

Gender sensitizing
"is about changing
behaviour and instilling
empathy into the views
that we hold about our
own and the other
gender."

Sex is biological.
Gender is social
and
is linked to social
roles.

When God created

the first man and
woman, His idea in
mind was
companionship,
equality and
shared mission

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Everyone,
whether Man or
Woman, wants to be
happy.
Now, can you be
happy, without the
other ?

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Attitude
towards
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MAN
WOMAN

ONE
became
TWO

and the TW
became MAN

When the source is

One and the Same
then why this problem?
Is the problem,
God-made
or
Man-made?

Are there any

PROBLEMS
with BEAUTY ?

Who is more BEAUTIFUL ?

Does this
explain

EVERYTHING
we are now
confronted with ?

Society
Permissive Society
Impact of Films,
Internet, and what not ?

Nobel Winner quits job

Over sexist jibe
Nobel Winner quits job over
controversial comments he made
about female scientists.
He said: that female scientists could
not take criticism, without crying and
that relationships between men and
women in the Laboratory disrupted
work.

 Personally I believe that our girls

have opened up as far as sexuality is
concerned; we have kind of accepted
that; But we have not smartened up
as far as contraception goes.
Dr. Divya Sudershan
~ Deccan Chronicle P. 17 of 11 June
2015

Who is more discriminted

and harassed ?

And why ?

Sexual Harassment

Use of sexual slander

as a weapon
to keep women
in a perpetual state of fear.

Can we make MEN appreciate

the Role WOMEN play ?

Are work - life balance challenges

different for
females and males ?
Females tend to find it
more difficult than males
to strike the ideal balance
because of the

motherhood mandate
which NATURE & CULTURE
impose on the female parent.

Aspects of Gender differentiation

Women perform 2/3rd of the worlds
work
Women earn only 1/10th of the worlds
income
Women own less than 1/100th of the
worlds property
Access to resources and benefits , and
control over them is allocated
according to Gender in many societies.

and still why

this harassment ?

Unequal gender relations

stunt the freedom of all individuals
to develop their human capacities
to their fullest.

Gender
People are born female or male, but learn to
be girls and boys who grow into women and
men. They are taught what the appropriate
behaviour and attitudes, roles and activities
are for them, and how they should relate to
other people.
This learnt behaviour is what makes up
gender identity, and determines gender
roles and responsibilities.
Gender roles vary greatly from one culture

GENDER
Refers to the social differences
between men and women
that are learned, changeable over time
and
have wide variations within and between
cultures.
GENDER is a socio-economic variable to
analyse
roles, responsibilities, constraints,
opportunities and needs of men and

Everything which is usual appears

natural. The subjection of women
to men being a universal custom,
any departure from it quite
naturally appears unnatural.

Family
Family is the school of patriarchy, where the
hierarchy among men and women is
established and reinforced. The socialisation
process in the family reproduces the values of
patriarchy. Men are deemed the heads of the
family the term pati or husband means
owner he manages and controls the house,
the property it encompasses and the people
within. He thereby controls womens
sexuality, labour, mobility etc. There is no
term or ritual for equal partnership in the
family. Generally the husband is more

Religious Institutions
All modern religions have been led,
created, manned and institutionalised by
men.
The writers and the interpreters of
religious books have been men.

Religion has presented

patriarchy as supernaturally
ordained.
Women have been considered inferior,

Legal Institutions
The legal system in most countries is both
patriarchal and bourgeois.
The personal laws pertaining to family,
marriage and inheritance are based upon
religious beliefs and are biased against
women.
Systems of jurisprudence and justice are also
male dominated. Over 95% of judges and 90%
of lawyers are men.
The thinking and hierarchy are male.
It is, therefore, not surprising that the laws are
not sensitive to women.

Womens Reproductive
Powers
Women do not have the choice to
decide how many children they want
to have, or to go in for contraception
etc.
As a mother of sons she has more
value than as a mother of daughters.
The ideology of motherhood is
considered one of the bases of
womens oppression, because it

Womens Sexuality
Women are passive vehicles of male
sexuality. Their own sexuality is
negated completly.
Women are conditioned to be ashamed
of their bodies and there is a whole
moral code of modesty and shame
associated with their sexuality.
The concepts generated by a
patriarchal society to use womens

Womens Mobility
To be able to control womens
sexuality, productivity and
reproductivity,
controlling mobility becomes
imperative.
Thus the imposition of purdah, of
the private spaces, the limitations
on social interactions between

Patriarchy
A worldwide system that predates
recorded history. The patriarchy is
the most powerful force in the
world today, trumping other
ideologies or political systems or
religious beliefs. By its very
nature, it is rooted in the
subjugation of women.
Patriarchal cultures uphold the
privileges of men based on

Women in Patriarchy
Because patriarchy is a system,
women are also patriarchal.
They co-operate in perpetuating
patriarchy
and are rewarded by the system for
doing so.
Thus the fight is not with all men, but it
is with those men and women who

Even in an enlightened
institution like a university
campus (including the JNU
campus), sexual harassment
cannot be very uncommon.
Bad people are everywhere and
often the wolves are in sheeps
clothing.

Sexuality includes
feelings, thoughts, beliefs,
attitudes, how we feel about
ourselves and our bodies.
It is a central aspect of our lives
and impacts our sense of
confidence and well being.

There is nothing dirty

about it

From womb to death

females are facing
lots of
discrimination
against them.

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