gender sensitivity
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Gender Sensitivity
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INTRODUCTION:
Schools and homes are the basic sources of development of the understanding and gender relations.
Gender issues prevail in society in all areas of life.
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1. Terms Used Related to Gender Sensitivity
Gender “the social relations of gender” It focuses on the attributes acquired in the
process of socialization: our self and group definitions, our sense of appropriate roles, values and behaviors, and above all, expected and acceptable interactions in relationship between women and men.”
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Gender sensitivity we mean gender awareness.
Gender sensitivity pertains to one’s effort to show how gender shapes the roles of women and men society, including their role in development, and how it affects relations between them.
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2. HOW TO PROMOTE AWARENESS IN PARENTS AND TEACHERS
Curriculum /Text Educational System
Guidelines by Gender Experts Role of Governmental and Non Governmental Organization
Institutionalization of Special Committees/Groups in Academic Setting
Use of Gender Sensitive Vocabulary Educational Policies
Teacher Training Programs Extra Fringe Benefits
Gender Sensitive Organization Culture
Allocation of Budget
Monitoring
School – Parent Partnership
Gender Mainstreaming
Creation of a Gender Responsive School
Gender Sensitivity Counseling
Commitment From Senior Leadership/Government
Gender Audit
Gender Trainings / Sensitization Sessions
Role of Media NEXT
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Curriculum / Text
It is important that all text, reading material and books be free of notion of gender inequality as bias is embedded in textbooks, lessons and teachers’ interactions with students.
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Educational System
Educational System needs to be gender-sensitive and gender-friendly for girls and boys.
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Guidelines By Gender Experts
There’s a need for the development of criteria of meeting gender sensitive guidelines.
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Role of Governmental and Non – Governmental Organization
Governmental and Non – Governmental Organization can play a pivotal role in promoting gender equality.
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Use of Gender Sensitive Vocabulary
Gender neutral language needs to be promoted at all levels and throughout the institutions for students, staff, and faculty and management levels.
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Educational Policies
All policies, programs, and interventions need to be gender – sensitive.
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Teacher Training Programs
All teachers should be gender – sensitized.
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Extra Fringe Benefits
Benefits must be offered in rural areas to promote girl education.
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School – Parent Partnership
parent partnership needs to be strengthened to identify and address gender issues in homes and in educational institutions.
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Gender Trainings / Sensitization sessions
Gender trainings must be provided for parents, teachers, staff, administrators and local officials.
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Monitoring
• Gender sensitivity progress must be constantly reviewed by gender experts and steps should be taken to sustain the same.
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Gender Sensitivity Counseling
Gender sensitivity counseling must be made available for students staff, teachers and parents.
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Allocation of Budget
Educational authorities and schools must be provided with a suitable budget to promote and sustain the gender sensitive agenda.
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Commitment from Senior Leadership/Government
Gender fair practices are effective when top leadership supports gender equity and equality measures.
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Gender Sensitive Organizational Culture
Organizational change needs to be institutionalized by promoting gender balanced staff, gender sensitive governance structure; equal valuing of women and men’s working styles etc.
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Gender Audit
• Gender audit of institutions should be carried out by gender experts to review curriculum, policies, programs, interventions etc.
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Creation of a Gender Responsive School
A gender responsive school is one where academic, social and physical environment and its surrounding community take into account the specific need of both girls and boys.
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Institutionalization of Special Committees / Groups in academic
settings
in order to promote gender-friendly and safe invironment for children it is important to institutionalized special committees.
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Gender mainstreaming
Is essential to mainstream gender in all institutions of society.
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Role of Media
Media constantly reinforces the traditional stereotypes of women and men.
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3. Gender mainstreaming
HOW TO ADOPT GENDER
MAINSTREAMING
Train Teachers in Gender education
Strengthen school
-parent partnershi
p on gender issues
Conduct Gender Analysis
Train for gender sensitivity
Key Officials should
undergo gender sen
sitivity training sessi
ons
Develop set of criteria to rid textbooks of gender bias and sex stereotyping
Review policies for possible discriminatory clauses
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Train teachers in gender equality educacation to have it actualized more effectively at school sites.
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Gender analysis should be conducted through the curriculum materials, teaching and learning processes, school structure and culture.
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School-parent partnership on gender issues should be strengthened by parents, teachers, administrators and local officials.
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Gender sensitivity training needs to be mandatory for all teacher training programs, certificate and academic courses.
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The key officials of both DEPED and CHED from the top echelon down to lowest level of school managers should undergo a series of gender sensitivity training sessions.
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The authors, publishers, Board on textbooks and other concerned agencies stereotyping and continue to review existing textbooks and teacher manuals in the elementary and secondary levels.
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Concerned school officials should review policies for possible discriminatory clauses on student admission requirements.
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ROLES THAT THE TEACHERS SHOULD PLAY TO ADDRESS
GENDER SENSITIVITY
ISSUESFind
appropriate time to raise
gender issues
Conduct Researches
Promote gender
responsive school
Strive to work hand in hand with school
administrator
Cooperate with
Government and Non-
Government organization
Attend Gender
Trainings
Understand Gender
Roles and Expectations
Treat every boy and girl
equally
Initiate Information
Dissemination campaign
gender-fair education
4. Roles Teachers Should Play to Address Gender Sensitivity Issues
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Teachers should understand gender roles and expectations to help them analyze their own differential behaviors towards boys and girls.
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Teachers should attend gender trainings so that they can facilitate the change to be brought about the curriculum materials such as syllabus, modules instructional aides and others.
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Teachers should cooperate with government and non-government organizations to meet the challenges of minimizing gender discrimination and promoting gender equality.
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Teachers should strive to work hand in hand with school administrators so that gender sensitive organizational culture will be institutionalized.
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Teachers should be active and decisive in promoting a gender responsive school where the academic, social and physical environment and its surrounding community take into account the specific needs of both boys and girls.
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Teachers should conduct researches on gender sensitivity issues to properly address inequalities and discrimination between men and women.
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Teachers should find appropriate time during assemblies, conferences, meetings and the like to raise gender issues concerns.
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Teachers should initiate information dissemination campaign on gender-fair education and include in school papers articles.
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Above all, teachers should treat every boy and every girl equally in all aspects.
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