Gender Flashcards
Refers to the policies, instruments, programs, services, and actions that address the disadvantages position of women in society
Gender equity
4 interrelated factors that development investments need to address to advance gender equality.
- Access to economic resources
- Participation and leadership in decision making
- Respect for human rights of women
- Increased capacity to tackle gender inequalities
Means that women and men have more or less the same opportunities given them to realize their individual potentials
Gender equality
Biases against people on the basis of gender
Sexism
According to them, contemporary sexism is complicated
Peter Glick and Susan Fiske
An scale that involves the argument that sexism is based on deep ambivalence toward women rather than on a uniform dislike of women.
Ambivalent Sexism Inventory
Blatant kind of sexism based on the idea that women should be subservient to men and know their place.
Hostile sexism
Subtler kind of sexism that argues for women’s special niceness and purity
Benevolent sexism
A bias against people based on their race or ethnic groups
Racism
It is a bias that is based on social class
Classism
Refers to a bias against people with disabilities
Ableism
This refers to a bias against anyobe who is not exclusively heterosexual
Heterosexism
Bias based on chronological age
Ageism
Is the principle that values women’s experience and ideas.
Feminism
She emphasized some points in feminism
Margaret Matlin
Men and women can be feminists
Feminism includes men
Some may qualify as feminists even they may be reluctant to call themselves feminists.
Feminism is not men antagonism
It encompasses a variety of ideas and perspectives, not just one feminist viewpoint
Feminism is not just one viewpoint
Emphasizes the goal of gender equality, that is giving women and men the same rights and opportunities.
Liberal feminism
Emphasizes the positive qualities that are presumed to be stronger in women and men — such as nurturing and caretaking. Focuses on gender differences that values women
Cultural feminism
Claims that the basic cause of women’s oppression lies deep in the entire sex and gender system
Radical Feminism
It points out that the three other approaches of feminism overemphasize gender. Feminism must pay attention to other human dimensions.
Women-of-color feminism
Undervaluation or even non valuation of women’s work.
I.e Housework and child rearing are viewed as minor and natural functions
Economic marginalization
Women are generally expected to play supportive roles to men and accept a subordinate status
Political subordination
Societal perceptions and value systems ingrained an image of women as weak, dependent, subordinate, indecisive, emotional and submissive
Gender stereotyping
Aside from reproductive functions women participate in the labor force yet they are still demanded to make housework and child care their first priority
Multiple burden
Women are actual and potential victims of specific kinds of violence that are born out of the status of women in society.
Violence against women
This results to females generally posses lower levels of self-esteem and confidence compared to males
Obstacles to personhood
The philippine government first expressed its commitment to uplift women by creating anf maintaining the ________
National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
United national declaration of International Women’s Year
1975
Decade for women
1976-1985
Signatory to the UN convention of the elimination of all kinds of discrimination against women (CEDAW) abd ratified in 1981
1980
Philippine constitution recognizes the fundamental equality of women and men before the law
1987
CAR law, equal rights to ownership of land, farm produce and representation in advisory and decision making bodies
RA 6657
Prohibition of discrimination against women in employment, training and promotion opportunities
RA 6725
Bans marriage matching for fee
RA 6955
Establishment of Day Care Center in every barangay
RA 6972
Magna Carta for public health, which allows spouses to be assigned in the same municipality
RA 7805
Amends social security law and increase maternity leave benefit of women
RA 7392
Increase the minimum wage of domestic house helpers
RA 7655
Removal of all discriminatory provisions of the civil code
Family code 1987
This concept serves as a framework for pursuing full equality and development for both Filipino women and men.
Gender-response development
An act promoting the role of women in development
RA 7192 “Women in development and nation building act”
Women shall be accorded equal access to membership in all social, civic, and recreational clubs, committees, associations, and similar organizations devoted to public service
c. Equal membership in clubs
Women of legal ag, regardless of civil status shall have the capacity of act and enter into contracts which shall in every respect equal to that of men under similar circumstances
c. Equal in Capacity to act
