Gender Flashcards

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Fundamental concepts of Gender and Development

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Gender and Sex

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2
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Biological differences between men and women. Permanent and universal

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Sex

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3
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Socially constructed

Social relations between women and men

Gender roles are dynamic and change over time

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Gender

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4
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The process by which individuals are informed about norms, traditions, behaviours, associated in our assigned sex usually during our childhood development

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Gender Socialization

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5
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General set of expectations attached to being a man/woman

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Sex Roles

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Learned behaviors in a given society/community or other special group, that condition which activities and responsibilities are perceived as male and female

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Gender Roles

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7
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Gender issues come in because it blocks people’s _________

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Capacity to do and capacity to be

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8
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One’s ability to dominate others, to make them do what you want

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Power over

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9
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One’s ability to act on his/her own. Intellect, resources and knowledge are among the sources of such power

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Power to

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10
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One’s ability to cooperate with others to accomplish something

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Power with

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Is related to a person’s sense of self worth and self knowledge. Includes the ability to recognize individual differences. It allows people to recognize their ‘power to’ and ‘power with’

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Power within

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12
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Seeks to achieve GENDER EQUALITY as a FUNDAMENTAL VALUE that should be reflected in development of choices.

Contends that women are active agents of development.

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Gender and Development (MCW)

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13
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Development aims to fulfill three basic human needs:

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1) to provide for basic necessities

2) the ability to become persons with identity; dignity and self-eseem;

3) and exercise of freedom and responsibility

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14
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Development should thus

1) _____________ and widen the distribution of basic life-sustaining goods

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Increase the availability

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15
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Development should thus

2) __________ of living not only in terms of increased income but also better education and greater attention to humanistic and cultural values that enhance self-esteem

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Raise levels

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16
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Development should thus

3) _________ and economic choices of individuals by ___________ and dependence not only in relation to other people but also from the forces of ignorance and human misery.

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Expand the range of social;

Freeing them from servitude

17
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Preference or prejudice towards one gender over the other

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Gender Bias

18
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Manifestations of gender bias

What is the process which forces women out into the periphery of economic and social life, decision making process and diminishes the value of the activities in which they engage and through which they contribute to the national development process

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Marginalization

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Manifestations of gender bias

Being under the authority of one’s sex

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Political Subordination - submission

20
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Manifestations of Gender Bias

The process of attributing a set of characteristics, roles and traits, favorable or unfavorable, to all members of a social group based on sex/gender.

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Gender Stereotyping

21
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Manifestations of Gender Bias

When a person is doing:
Unpaid work/reproductive work
Paid work or productive work
Volunteer work in the community

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Multiple Burden

22
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Manifestations of Gender Bias

Any act of gender-based violence that causes harm or suffering to women whether occurring in public or private life

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Violence Against Women (VAW)

23
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Increased violence against women around the world with surges being reported in many cases of _______

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Upwards of 25% in countries

24
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Who wrote the poem “For Every Woman”

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Nancy Smith