gender and society

1. GENDER STUDIES

2. Gend
er
• Gender is the range of characteristics
pertaining to, and differentiating between,
masculinity and femininity.
• Depending on the context, these
characteristics may include biological
sex, sex-based social structures, or
gender identity.
• Gender is a status designation derived from
the physiological aspects link to males
and females to allow individuals to
function within particular social contexts.
Gender is Socially Learned behavior,

3. Gender
studies
• Gender studies is a field for
interdisciplinary study devoted to gender
identity and gender representation as
central categories of analysis.

4. • Sex: biological maleness or
femaleness
genetic – determined by
chromosomes anatomical –
obvious physical differences
between males and
females
• Gender – psychological
aspects of maleness or
femaleness
• Gender Identity – the subjective
Sex and
Gender

5. Gender
• It was formed from old French- gendre
(medern genre) and Latin- Genus (birth,
family, nation) = Gender
• The word gender has been used since the
14th century as a grammatical term
• Gender’ refers to the socially-constructed
roles of and relationships between men
and women.

6. Gender
Symbol
• Female
(left), Male
(right).
• From
symbols
for Venus
and Mars.
“Women and men are more alike than
they are different. Men are not from
Mars; women are not from Venus—

7. GENDER PRIMER
OBJECTIVES
• Understand the difference between
gender and sex
• Consider how gender roles
impact participation
• Appreciate diversity among women
• Identify discrimination and how to
address it

8. Stereotype Gender
Bias
• GENDER IS NOT A “Women’s
Issue” It’s a “People’s Issue”
• It’s the undue pressure on Boys & Girls
to live up to the established norms of
Masculinity & femininity
• Girls endure unwarranted social
control, discrimination & domination
• Boys discouraged from being emotional,
gentle or fearful thrust into a world of
Macho Protectors, Warriors, Breadwinners

10. We need to study gender
studies
Some of the important issues of life
revolve around being a man, or being
a woman, or inhabiting a post-binary
invention of gender
• To distinguish what is right and
wrong.
• To avoid (consideration) girls
(Women) as a sex object.

11. We need to study gender
studies
• To consider each and every human
being as equal.
• To understand the discrimination on the
basis of their gender. Even
transgenders are at par with men and
women.
• To avoid the arrogance in man
• To understand that the society will
exist only and only if all genders
prosper equally.

12. Gender
roles

13. Gender
role
• Gender Role – attitudes and behaviors
considered appropriate in a specific
culture for people of a particular sex
• Expectations we should fulfill
• Masculine or Feminine
• Vary widely from culture to
culture but rapidly evolving

16. Most significant were the
amendment to the
• 10. 1972: The Indian Evidence Act
Section113B. {presumption as to dowry
death]
• 11.1983: Criminal Law second
Amendment Act, Section 498A
• 2010: Sec 41a CrPc [no automatic
arrest on complaint u/s 498A
• 2012: Supreme Court dictate on 41a