Basic Concept of Gender

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Sex • Biological differences between men and women.• Not vary with race, caste, class, ethnicity, religion, and time.• Women’s ability to give birth, breast feed.

Gender• Social differences between men and women • Manifested in different roles, qualities and behaviors of

women, men and society as a whole.• Vary with race, caste, class, ethnicity, religion, relation

position, situations, age, time. • Vary with situations, the same person may behave differently

in different contexts.

Gender roles

• Refers to socially differentiated roles of men and women

• Gender roles can be changed easily through sensitization of women and men.1. Productive Role2. Reproductive role3. Community Role

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Gender Needs

Practical gender needs (PGN): • Related to immediate needs of living, such as food,

drinking water, health care and medical support.

Strategic gender needs (SGN): • Related to gender divisions of labor, equal wages,

resources and education, and women’s control over their bodies.

• Necessary to encompass social and political reforms for ensuring power and control, legal rights, reduce domestic violence, .

• These measures are seen as relatively long-term objectives.

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Gender Equality VS Gender Equity

Gender sensitization tools

Tool-1: Gender Equity Analysis

Education

Asset

Control

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Power

Inequity

Education

Asset

Control

Right

Power

Inequity

Education

Asset

Control

Right

Power

Equity

Access

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Money

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Control

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Money

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Asset

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Money

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MEN WOMEN

Red = Low

Yellow = Moderate

Green = High

Tool-2: Access -Control Analysis

Access• Availability- can own Asset

• Handiness- Able to use when required

Control• Authority/Autonomy- Right or permission or liberty to use the

asset (Sell)• Decision making- power to make decisions within the

household and community• Command- Access power to direct or regulate resource• ability to use effectively • Power- to influence or direct people’s behavior or the course of

events.

Tool-3: Time Meter Tool

Tool-4: Barrier Tree Analysis

Causes

Effect

Barrier

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Stem

Branches

WorkloadControl

over asset, income

Institutions, ideology Mobility

Four Major Women Barriers

Women’s Empowerment Framework(CARE Framework)

CARE defines WE as the combined effect of changes in:

Women’s Empowerment in Programming

Reduce violence against women

Strong Social Movements

based on solidarity

between men and women

Women will be empowered by:

+Exercise of greater choice in decisions affecting their lives

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CARE’S Women’s Empowerment : Theory of Change