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1. Gender Sensitization
Gender Sensitization Cell
Aurora’s Degree and PG College,
Hyderabad
[ with grateful thanks to many sources ]
Facilitator
Prof. V. Viswanadham
Viswam.vangapally@gmail.com

2. Gender sensitizing
"is about changing behaviour and
instilling empathy into the views
that we hold about our own and the
other gender."

3. ‘Sex’ is biological.
Gender is social and
is linked to social roles.

4. When God created
the first man and woman,
His idea in mind was
companionship,
equality and
shared mission

5. MAN
WOMAN

6. Everyone,
whether Man or Woman,
wants to be happy.
Now, can you be happy,
without the other ?

8. Attitude
towards
each other
MAN
WOMAN

9. ONE
became
TWO
and the TWO
became MANY

10. When the source is
One and the Same
then why this problem?
Is the problem,
God-made
or
Man-made?

11. Are there any
PROBLEMS
with BEAUTY ?

12. Who is more BEAUTIFUL ?

13. Does this
explain
EVERYTHING
we are now
confronted with ?

14. Society
Permissive Society
Impact of Films,
Internet, and what not ?

15. Nobel Winner quits job
Over sexist jibe
Nobel Winner quits job over controversial
comments he made about female scientists.
He said: that female scientists could not take
criticism, without crying and that relationships
between men and women in the Laboratory
disrupted work.
~ Deccan Chronicle – 12 June 2015

16. “ Personally I believe that our girls have
opened up as far as sexuality is concerned; we
have kind of accepted that; But we have not
smartened up as far as contraception goes.”
Dr. Divya Sudershan
~ Deccan Chronicle – P. 17 of 11 June 2015

17. Who is more discriminted
and harassed ?
And why ?

18. Sexual Harassment
Use of sexual slander
as a weapon
to keep women
in a perpetual state of fear.

19. Can we make MEN appreciate
the Role WOMEN play ?

22. Females tend to find it
more difficult than males
to strike the ideal balance
because of the
motherhood mandate
which NATURE & CULTURE
impose on the female parent.

23. Aspects of Gender differentiation
 Women perform 2/3rd of the world’s work
 Women earn only 1/10th of the world’s
income
 Women own less than 1/100th of the
world’s property
 Access to resources and benefits , and
control over them is allocated
according to Gender in many societies.
and still why
this harassment ?

24. Unequal gender relations
stunt the freedom of all individuals
to develop their human capacities
to their fullest.

25. Gender
People are born female or male, but learn to be girls
and boys who grow into women and men. They are
taught what the appropriate behaviour and attitudes,
roles and activities are for them, and how they should
relate to other people.
This learnt behaviour is what makes up gender identity,
and determines gender roles and responsibilities.
Gender roles vary greatly from one culture to another
and from one social, political, and economic group to
another within the same culture.

26. “GENDER”
Refers to the social differences
between men and women
that are learned, changeable over time and
have wide variations within and between cultures.
GENDER is a socio-economic variable to analyse
roles, responsibilities, constraints, opportunities and
needs of men and women in any context.

27. “Everything which is usual appears natural.
The subjection of women to men being a
universal custom, any departure from it
quite naturally appears unnatural”.

28. Family
Family is the school of patriarchy, where the hierarchy
among men and women is established and reinforced.
The socialisation process in the family reproduces the
values of patriarchy. Men are deemed the heads of the
family – the term ‘pati’ or husband means owner – he
manages and controls the house, the property it
encompasses and the people within. He thereby controls
women’s sexuality, labour, mobility etc. There is no term
or ritual for equal partnership in the family. Generally the
husband is more educated, considered more superior and
more intelligent.

29. Religious Institutions
All modern religions have been led, created,
manned and institutionalised by men.
The writers and the interpreters of religious books
have been men. Religion has presented
patriarchy as supernaturally ordained.
Women have been considered inferior, sinful,
impure and religious laws have justified violence
against deviant women.

30. Legal Institutions
The legal system in most countries is both patriarchal and
bourgeois.
The personal laws pertaining to family, marriage and
inheritance are based upon religious beliefs and are
biased against women.
Systems of jurisprudence and justice are also male
dominated. Over 95% of judges and 90% of lawyers are
men.
The thinking and hierarchy are male.
It is, therefore, not surprising that the laws are not
sensitive to women.

31. Women’s Reproductive Powers
Women do not have the choice to decide how
many children they want to have, or to go in for
contraception etc.
As a mother of sons she has more value than as
a mother of daughters. The ideology of
motherhood is considered one of the bases of
women’s oppression, because it creates
feminine and masculine character types, which
in turn perpetuate patriarchy.

32. Women’s Sexuality
Women are passive vehicles of male sexuality.
Their own sexuality is negated completly.
Women are conditioned to be ashamed of their
bodies and there is a whole moral code of
modesty and shame associated with their
sexuality.
The concepts generated by a patriarchal society
to use women’s sexuality.

33. Women’s Mobility
To be able to control women’s sexuality,
productivity and reproductivity,
controlling mobility becomes imperative.
Thus the imposition of purdah, of the
private spaces, the limitations on social
interactions between sexes, etc.

34. Patriarchy
A worldwide system that predates
recorded history. The patriarchy is the
most powerful force in the world today,
trumping other ideologies or political
systems or religious beliefs. By its very
nature, it is rooted in the subjugation of
women.
Patriarchal cultures uphold the privileges
of men based on gender, social structures,
religious practices, and legal codes.

35. Women in Patriarchy
Because patriarchy is a system,
women are also patriarchal.
They co-operate in perpetuating patriarchy
and are rewarded by the system for doing so.
Thus the fight is not with all men, but it is with
those men and women who perpetuate
patriarchy.

36. Even in an enlightened institution like a
university campus (including the JNU
campus), sexual harassment cannot be
very uncommon.
Bad people are everywhere and often
the wolves are in sheep’s clothing.

37. Sexuality includes
feelings, thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, how
we feel about ourselves and our bodies.
It is a central aspect of our lives and
impacts our sense of confidence and well
being.
There is nothing dirty about it

38. From womb to death
females are facing lots of
discrimination against
them.

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