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Gender? What is it?

What do you think? Agree or disagree?

What determines your views about the above sentences?• Your own value judgment?• Your teachers’ and parents’ teaching?• The cultural tradition?

Are women and men born to be different?

Sex vs. Gender

What is Sex?

Biological differences between females and males

What is Sex?

• Examples: • Female have XX chromosome, while males have XY chromosome• Females have vagina, while males have penis• Females could bear babies

What is Gender?

• Socio-cultural differences between women and men• the roles (mother/father, husband/wife) • characteristics (values, personality traits, behaviours, attitudes and interests)• in different societal institutions (the family, schools, workplaces and

governments).

What is Gender?

•When you say that you are a man/woman, what are you actually implying?•What should be your job? • Should you be a nurse?

•What should be your hobbies? • Should you go rock-climbing?

•What should be your character? • Should you be emotional?

•What should your wear? • Should you wear pink?

What is Gender?

• Gender roles and characteristics:• learned and transmitted through socialisation;• changeable over time; and• have wide variations both within and between societies and cultures.

Socialisation of Gender

•Socialisation is the process which an individual acquire, through interaction with other people, the knowledge about various attitudes, values, behaviours, roles, social and cultural skills• It is the process which we become self-conscious,

knowledgeable and skillful so that we could live our lives under a specific environment.•This process is at work continuously through all

phases of our lives, especially when we move in a new environment.


• During the socialisation process, the following parties play an important part in shaping your concepts about gender :-• Family• Friends• School Education• Working Environment• Media


•Think about the following:-•What is the meaning of your name?•Who tells you what kind of toys you should have for your

birthday?•Why did you choose your major subject in University?•Why are you assigned your tasks at the Christmas party at

your workplace?•Who tells you what body figure you should have?

Myths and Facts about Gender

•Myth:•Women are weaker than men.

•Fact:• Leg strength relative to the individual’s lean body weight

is equal for men and women•Men have faster neuro-muscular response time: great

force production•Women have a greater portion of shored elastic energy

than men during activities in which muscle is pre-stretched, e.g. counter movement prior to jumping.


•Myth:• After getting married, women do not need to work.

•Fact:• In Hong Kong, women constitutes 44% of the labour

force. Their labour participation rate is 52%.• Of those people who are heavily involved in housework,

80% were women.•Women homemakers spent 6.8 hours a day on

housework, women with dual role spent 3 hours, while men spent 1.1 hours on average.


•Myth:• Women are worse in decision-maker than men.

• Fact:• In the HKSAR Government, women constitutes 7 among the 17

Permanent Secretaries, the most senior officials in the civil service,.• In the administrative officers grade, which is a corps of multi-

skilled professional administrators who form the backbone of the government's policy, 53.4 % were women.• Of all the top/ senior management positions in private and non-

government sector in Hong Kong, women are now holding about a quarter (26%) of them.

What is Gender Stereotyping?

• Gender Stereotyping emerges when pre-conceived ideas about one sex are applied indiscriminately without considering any personal, social and cultural factors.• For example:

"Men are aggressive while women are emotional".

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