What are the areas and causes of gender discrimination? Gender discrimination in educational institution.

1. Gender Discrimination

2. Areas of Gender Discrimination
• Denial of Birth
• Denial of Fundamental Needs
• Discrimination in Education
• Discrimination in Employment
• Wage Discrimination

3. Causes of Gender Discrimination
• Poverty
• Illiteracy
• Lack of Employment Facilities
• Customs and Traditions
• Social Attitude
• Lack of Awareness Regarding Rights among Women

4. Gender Discrimination in Educational Institutions
• Especially girls in rural areas, continue to be less educated than boys.
• Greater percentage of females compared to males drop out from their
educational journey after the age of twelve.
• Girls tend to have concentration in selective disciplines in higher education,
while lacking representation in other educational realms

5. Gender Equality Through Curriculum
• India has a clear policy on undifferentiated curricula for both sexes.
• Curriculum helps to clear that biological sex and social gender are separable
concepts.
• The concerns to be addressed by the teachers and administrators for
eliminating sex biases.
• Need to promote gender equality and positive self-concept through
curriculum and life skills approach.

6. Gender Sensitive Curriculum
• Effective pictures and illustrations should shown to the children
that a woman is not merely a mother, but she can be a teacher, a
doctor, a professor, an engineer, etc.
• Depict men and women in shared roles.
• Display the talent of women in various fields.

7. Gender Sensitive Curriculum
• The textbooks are to be free of gender bias and sex stereotypes.
• A gender sensitive life skills approach to curriculum transaction
need to be practices.
• Focus more on family life education, legal literacy and life saving
skills, etc.

8. Gender Inequality in Academic
Employment
• Understand gender inequality in academia by identifying and attempting to
explain differential time allocation preferences, behaviours, and mismatches.
• Women faculty report preferring to spend a larger percentage of their
workweek on teaching and a smaller percentage on research
• Teaching time allocation preferences are shaped by the features of the
institutions in which men and women are located.
• This suggests that gender-differentiated preferences may in part reflect the
constraints women face in obtaining positions comparable to those of men.

9. Feel free to ask any question....
Prepared By,
Dr. Prerna Mandhyan
Asst. Prof.
Dept. of Education
D. S. College, Katihar
7/23/2021