Gender, Stereotypes and Power Relations

Question 1

Gender

Answer 1

Socially constructed characteristics of women and men such as norms, roles, relationships of and between men and women, they can vary in different societies and can be changed.

Question 2

Two types of power relations

Answer 2

Power over

Power with

Question 3

Power over characteristics

Answer 3

• Threats, force
• Assumes one is better than the other
• Breaks relationships
• Increases fear

Question 4

Power with characteristics

Answer 4

• Co-operation, respect, togetherness
• Assumes we are equal
• Builds relationships
• Increases respect

Question 5

Subordination

Answer 5

Put into a lesser status/lower position

Question 6

Domination

Answer 6

Strong position of power over others

Question 7

GBV practices

Answer 7

• Verbal physical abuse of women and girls
• Sexual abuse/assault (rape/marital rape)
• Female genital mutilation
• Giving girls less food or education and more work at home than boys
• Withholding money from female partner so she is unable to take care of herself and her children
• Denying women their freedom to do as they wish

Question 8

Cycle of abuse

Answer 8

Physical/sexual/verbal abuse (at a young age)
Emotional/behavioural damage: drug/alcohol abuse, depression, low self-esteem
High-risk sex: prostitution, unprotected sex, multiple partners, early sex debut
Unwanted pregnancy or STI’s/HIV

Question 9

Toxic masculinity

Answer 9

A narrow repressive cultural idea, defining manliness as violence, sex, status and aggression. Strength is everything and emotion is seen as a weakness.