Sex and Gender: What is the difference?

BIOLOGICALLY- DETERMINED DIFFERENCES: SEX Sex and Gender: What is the difference? Health
ANATOMICAL/PHYSIOLOGICAL
DIFFERENCES
GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITIES
RESISTANCES/IMMUNITIES
NEEDS
VULNERABILITIES
SOCIALLY-CONSTRUCTED DIFFERENCES: GENDER
ROLES
RESPONSIBILITIES
BEHAVIORS
EXPECTATIONS
POWER
ACCESS
RIGHTS
ENTITLEMENT
Lower status for women Higher status for men

Concept of ‘child’ not informative beyond identifying ‘age’; every child is first a girl or a boy with associated gender related expections and gender biases
in access to food, education, love, and health care
And, mothers’ perception of gender worth may color:
recognition of seriousness of illness
amount of resources to expend on the child
what kind of medicine best for child
What does this mean for children?

How? Equity and Need
To attain equity in health, it is important to recognize that females and males have different needs and constraints due both to biology and gender that must be identified and adequately addressed .

How? G ender Analysis is a Must!
Gender analysis helps to identify the differences and disparities in the roles that men and women play, the power imbalances in their relations, their needs, constraints, and opportunities , and the impact of these differences on their likelihood of getting infected, accessing care, and recovering.

How? Gender Analysis Framework for HIV
Step 1 : Know the gender structure of your community:
Gender norms regarding behavior, gender relations, etc.
Values : Are women and men equally valued?
Attitudes towards and perpetration of GBV
Roles : Productive and reproductive
Access to education, information, media, resources
Control over resources : patterns of decisionmaking
Health service delivery : Availability, gender norms in access and health delivery

How? Gender Analysis Framework for Health For women and men separately, fill the matrix: Source: See references on last slide In relation to HIV: How do gender norms/values/ roles/activities affect: How does experience/ perpetration of GBV affect: How do access to and control over resources affect: How do bio-logical differences between sexes affect: Vulnerability Prevention and treatment options Health-seeking behavior/access to services Experience with health services and providers Outcome of health problem Consequences

Sex and Gender: What is the difference?

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