Chapter 2 Flashcards
aims at reducing gender stereotyping and
discrimination.
Gender-Fair Language (GFL)
What are the two principal strategies have been employed to make languages gender-fair and to treat women and men symmetrically?
*Gender Fair or Nonsexist language is the standard today
*Avoid the colloquial term “guys” when addressing a mixed-gender audience
. It means selecting words that are gender neutral or gender inclusive. Avoid using “he” to stand for “he or she.”
Gender Fair or Nonsexist language
THE MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION
Language
It is a body of signs, symbols, sounds and words with significant meanings which are used for communication.
Language
is the process of transmitting a message from the Source to Receiver.
Communication
It is an INSTRUMENT FOR BUILDING CIVILIZATION
Language
It is the use of language which devalues members of one sex, almost invariably women, and thus fosters gender inequality.
Sexism in Language
It discriminates against women by rendering them invisible or trivializing them at the same time that it perpetuates notions of male supremacy.
Sexism in Language
Gender Stereotypes
Women should display ___ traits
Men should display ___ traits
communal/warmth
agentic/competence
3 reasons why the Concern about Mere Words?
- Language articulates consciousness
- Language reflects cultures and values in our society
- Language affects socialization.
It is not only orders our thought but from infancy, we learn to use language to give utterance to our basic needs and feelings.
Language articulates consciousness
- It encodes and transmits cultural meanings and values in our society.
Language reflects cultures and values in our society
- Children learning a language absorb the cultural assumptions and biases underlying language use and see these as an index to their society’s values and attitudes
Language affects socialization.
reflected in language can thus powerfully affect a child’s later behavior and beliefs.
Social inequity
– subsuming all humanity in the terms man, father, brother, master
The use of generic masculine
: Instrument towards building a good human society
Language
is important in the formation of beliefs and behavior
Language
It has a critical impact on shaping the personality of a person
Language
: instrument in the development of a person
Language
: most subtle but most pervasive form of gender socialization
Language
can help build a better world.
Gender-Fair Language
has been dominant for many centuries in western societies.
Patriarchal society
It was believed that women need only to be trained to become effective wives and mothers.
Republican Motherhood
was even considered to be a fourth branch of government.
Motherhood
In ___ however, there was an emergence of educating girls in formal schools. The purpose of educating girls was still to be trained to be good mothers and better companions to their husbands.
1800s
. - The first institution which offered baccalaureate degrees to women
Georgia Female College
– the first university which accepted women in their baccalaureate degrees in 1855.
University of Iowa
dimensions of gender equality in education:
Equality of Access
Equality in the Learning Process
Equality in the Learning Outcomes
Should be given equitable opportunities to be admitted to formal, non-formal and alternative approaches to basic education.
Equality of Access
Girls and boys receive equitable treatment and attention and have equal opportunities to learn.
Equality in the Learning Process
Girls and boys enjoy equal opportunities to achieve and outcomes are based on their individual talents and efforts.
Equality in the Learning Outcomes
different reasons why gender parity cannot be completely achieved
Poverty
Lack of school infrastructure
Geographic remoteness
Armed conflict
Poor quality education
Some of the issues relevant to girls are the following:
Declining self-esteem
Gender bias in testing
Achieving gaps in math and science
Absence of women’s issues in the curriculum
Some of the issues relevant to boys are the following:
Unaddressed mental issues
Stereotyping
Low education outcome concerns
____also have higher rates of high school dropout.
Boys
‘According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, of Filipinos watch the television, and it still remains to be the most used and trusted source of information in our country.
81%
With changing power equations in the world and with women assuming new responsibilities, the ____ has become an important tool to help men and women adjust to contemporary life
mass media
is how the media presents or frames “aspects of society,
such as gender, age, or ethnicity” (BBC, 2019).
Media representation
Discussion Media Representation
• IDEOLOGIES
• BELIEF SYSTEM
• STEREOTYPES
“are simplified representation of a person, groups of people
or a place, through basic or obvious characteristics- which are often exaggerated” (BBC, 2019).
Media Stereotypes –
LGBT celebrities in the Philippines
Boy Abunda
Vice Ganda
Aisa Seguerra
Jake Zyrus
In the Philippines, there is a lack of awareness on ___ among media practitioners as they often left confused on the LGBT terms and labels.
SOGIE (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression)
Forceful men are perceived as ____ while forceful women are labeled ___
charismatic; domineering
Light-hearted men are seen as
, while women of the same nature are
easygoing; frivolous
- Forgetful men are called ____ while forgetful women are termed ____.
absent-minded; scatterbrained
4.We describe angry men as
, while angry women are .
outraged; hysterical
5.Men who are interested in everything are called
while women with similar tendency are termed .
curious people,
nosy
7.When men talk together, it is called a ____, but when women talk together, it is called ____.
convention;
gossip
reasons why gender parity cannot be completely achieved
Poverty
Geographic remoteness
Armed conflict
Poor quality education
Lack of school infrastructure
