Gender Sensitivity

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.

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.”

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.

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

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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