The presentation "Gender Issues" delves into the multifaceted challenges and complexities surrounding gender equality, gender identity, and gender-based discrimination. Through an exploration of historical context, social norms, legal frameworks, and contemporary debates, this presentation aims to raise awareness, promote understanding, and inspire action towards achieving gender equity and inclusion.

1. Gender Issues

2. Gender issue
 Gender inequality refers to unequal treatment
or perceptions of individuals based on their gender.
It arises from differences in socially constructed
gender roles.
 Gender equality, also known as sex equality,
sexual equality, or equality of the genders, is the view
that everyone should receive equal treatment and not
be discriminated against based on their gender.

3.  Gender issue is not same as women’s issue….
Understanding gender mean understanding the
behavior, opportunities and constraint that affect
both men as well as women.

4. Equity and Bias

5.  Equality- the state of being equal, especially in
status, rights, or opportunities.
 Equity - the quality of being fair and impartial.
 Bias- inclination or prejudice for or against one
person or group, especially in a way considered to be
unfair.

6. Know the difference

7.  Equity and equality are two strategies we can
use in an effort to produce fairness. Equity is giving
everyone what they need to be successful. Equality
is treating everyone the same. Equality aims to
promote fairness, but it can only work if everyone
starts from the same place and needs the same help

8.  Gender equality means equal treatment of
women and men in law and policies and equal
access to resource and service within families,
communities and society at large.
 Gender equity means fairness and justice in the
distribution of benefits and responsibilities between
women and men.

9.  “Gender equity is the process of being fair to
women
and men. ” - UNFPA
(United Nation Population Fund )

10.  In contrast to gender equality, gender equity
refers to the process of allocating resources based
on the particular requirements of a gender.
 For example, instead of making sure males and
females each receives 50 percent of the facilities of a
sports center, gender equity means that each gender
receives the right proportion and types of facilities
according to their interests, capacities and
experiences.

11.  While gender equality focuses on providing the
same starting circumstances for everyone, the goal
of gender equity is to provide both genders with the
same end results. In most cases, the concept of
gender equality is used in correlation with the
empowerment of women, whereas gender equity
refers to the process of treating both men and
women with the same amount of fairness when it
comes to the equality of chances based on
individual needs.

12. Gender Discrimination

13. Meaning
 Discrimination- the unjust or prejudicial
treatment of different categories of people,
especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

14.  Gender discrimination is the unfair treatment
of a person because of gender.
Gender discrimination affects both men and
women. It is apparent in work situations where one
gender is given preferential treatment or one
gender receives less pay or job responsibilities
because of gender bias and unfair stereotypes.

15. Cause of Gender Discrimination
 The causes of gender discrimination may be
as follows:
(1) Prejudice.
(2) Biological.
(3) Socio-cultural.
(4) Economic.
(5) Educational.
(6) Personal and Psychological.
(7) Adherance to traditional gender roles.

16. Prejudice.
 Men are so much biased against the qualities of a
woman that when a woman works excellently, men
say ‘she is a man’.
 Prejudices indicate unfounded and unscientific
judgement. It is wrong to discriminate all women on
the behaviour of one woman.

17. Biological
 biological differences between man and woman play
a minor role in creating gender discrimination
 But women are considered as only birth giver
 Today women are taking part in athletics and sports
like cricket, hockey, football, volley-ball which were
once considered the monopoly of males. But the
percentage of women taking part in such games is
quite small. It is hoped that if women are encouraged
by family, society and government they can prove
that they are also physically stronger like men.

18. Socio-cultural.
 people are no more interested in a girl child and
are engaged in the abortion of the unborn female
fetus, parents and in laws feel sorry when a girl is
born because they considered A female child in our
society is not wanted because she is considered by
her parents as flower of someone else’s garden.
 Parents don’t bother to pay for education and
her basic needs, thinking her existence is their
loss because they have to give away dowry

19. Economic Causes
 Around the globe in almost all societies women
were/are economically dependent on men. Since
they had no education and expertise to do jobs
outside and since men did not allow those who were
suitable for jobs, women were financially weak. They
were only engaged in domestic work for which they
were never paid. One psychologist called
women “unpaid maid servants”.

20. Educational Causes
 Empowerment of women is possible through education
in the first place. In order to make women self-sufficient
and reduce gender discrimination women should be
educated. Empowerment of women means improvement
in their political status, financial position, occupational
status and legal awareness etc., which can be achieved
through education.
 Experience and observation shows that in general the
status of women to-day is very low, they are
discriminated because of want of education. Education is
considered to be the most significant agent of basic
change in the status of women including economic and
occupational status.

22. Meaning
 Mainstream - the ideas, attitudes, or activities that
are shared by most people and regarded as normal or
conventional.

23. Gender mainstreaming
 Gender mainstreaming is the public policy
concept of assessing the different implications for
women and men of any planned policy action,
including legislation and programmes, in all areas
and levels.
 Mainstreaming essentially offers a pluralistic
approach that values the diversity among both men
and women.

24.  It is the process of assessing the implication for
women and men of any planned action, including
legislation, policies or programs in all area and at all
levels.
 It is a strategy for making women’s as well as men’s
concerns and experiences an integral dimension of
the design, implementation, monitoring and
evaluation of policies and programs in all political,
economical and societal spheres so that women and
men benefit equally and inequality is not
perpetuated.

25. Requirement and principles of Gender
mainstreaming
 Broad concept of gender equality
 Incorporation of gender perspective into the
mainstream of political agenda
 Inclusion and participation of women in decision
making
 Prioritizing gender equality objectives and framing
policies of relevance of women

26. Transformation by mainstreaming
 Mainstreaming is not about adding a “woman’s
component” or even a “gender equality component”
into a existing activity.
 It goes beyond increasing women’s participation ; it
means bringing the experience, knowledge and
interests of women and men to bear on the
developmental agenda.