Gender and Society

• The primary objective of the course is to familiarize students with different gender concepts and terminologies, reflect on gender and gender differences, and their implications to societies.
• The secondary objective of the course is to familiarize students with the national and international legal frameworks for gender equality.
• Gender and Society is a three-unit course that aims to raise awareness on current problems in gender inequality, gender mainstreaming, gender preferences, and the like.
• The course equips students with a broader perspective on their gender roles as they discern stereotypes and discriminations as dictated by society.
• The course prepares students to be more gender-sensitive in words and in actions as they build a new society filled with gender-responsive individuals.
• Women's rights are entitlements that women have on the basis that they are human, normatively based in several international human rights documents such as the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
• Gender equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex are fundamental human rights.
• Gender Roles are the sets of behaviour, roles and responsibilities attributed to women and men respectively by society which are reinforced at the various levels of the society through its political and educational institutions and systems, employment patterns, norms and values, and through the family.
• Non-discrimination is integral to the concept of equality.
• Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women.
• The CEDAW Convention is built on three foundational principles: non-discrimination, state obligation and substantive equality.
• Gender Balance is having the same (or a sufficient) number of women and men at all levels within the organization to ensure equal representation and participation in all areas of activity and interest.
• Gender Awareness is the recognition of the fact that life experience, expectations, and needs of women and men are different, that they often involve inequality and are subject to change.
• A Gender Focal Point is a person within the organization (field or headquarters) who is identified as being a reference point for issues concerning gender.
• Gender Mainstreaming is the systematic integration of the respective needs, interests and priorities of men and women in all the organization’s policies and activities.
• The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international legal instrument that requires countries to eliminate discrimination against women and girls in all areas and promotes women's and girls' equal rights.
• The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995 is a visionary agenda for the empowerment of women.
• Transgender refers to those trans people who live permanently in their preferred gender, without necessarily needing to undergo any medical intervention/s.
• Transsexual refers to people who identifies entirely with the gender role opposite to the sex assigned to at birth and seeks to live permanently in the preferred gender role.
• Transsexual people might intend to undergo, are undergoing or have undergone gender reassignment treatment, which may or may not involve hormone therapy or surgery.
• In most countries, women have lower literacy rate, lower level of enrolment in primary, secondary and tertiary education.
• Gender Blind is ignoring or failing to address the gender dimension.
• In most countries, women and men are distributed differently across sectors.
• Women tend to be more often victims in a form of domestic violence by woman’s intimate partner, sexual exploitation through trafficking and sex trade, in wars by an enemy army as a weapon of attempted ‘ethnic cleansing’ etc.
• Disaggregated Data is data broken down by sex, age or other variables to reflect the different needs, priorities and interests of women and men, and their access to and control over resources, services and activities.
• Gender Analysis is the study of differences in the conditions, needs, participation rates, access to resources and development, control of assets, decision-making powers, etc., between women and men in their assigned gender roles.
• Intersex is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn't seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male.
• Women are often underrepresented in formal decision-making structures, including governments, community councils, and policy-making institutions.
• Women are receiving lower wages for similar work, are more likely to be in low-paid jobs and unsecured work (part-time, temporary, home-based), and are likely to have less access than men to productive assets such as education, skills, property and credit.
• The gender gap is the difference in any area between women and men in terms of their levels of participation, access to resources, rights, power and influence, remuneration and benefits.
• For example, a person might be born appearing to be female on the outside, but having mostly male-typical anatomy on the inside.
• Of particular relevance related to women’s work is the “gender pay gap”, describing the difference between the average earnings of men and women.
• The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is a visionary agenda for empowerment of women and serves as a framework to analyze the situation of women around the world and assess the efforts of states in support of women’s empowerment.
• The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is a strategic framework to analyze the situation of women around the world and assess the efforts of states in support of women’s empowerment.
• The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action serves as a framework to analyze the situation of women around the world and assess the efforts of states in support of women’s empowerment.
• The Summary of Beijing Platform of Action includes strategic objectives such as women and poverty, women and the economy, women in power and decision-making, and women and health.
• The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is a strategic framework to analyze the situation of women around the world and assess the efforts of states in support of women’s empowerment
• The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is a reference framework to analyze the situation of women around the world and to assess the efforts of states in support of women’s empowerment.
• The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is the outcome document of the Fourth World Conference on Women in September 1995, considered as a blueprint for improving the position of women and advancing women’s rights.
• If life doesn’t break you today, it will try again tomorrow.