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1. GENDER and VOLUNTEERISM

2. OBJECTIVES
1. Discuss the Gender and Development
Perspective
2. Differentiate Sex and Gender
3. Define Gender Sensitivity
4. Identify Gender Issues
5. Identify contribution in advancing
gender and development efforts
through Volunteerism

3. Gender and Development

4. (GAD) as the development
perspective and process
that is participatory and
empowering, equitable,
sustainable, free from
violence, respectful of
human rights, supportive of
self-determination and
actualization of human
potentials. (The Magna Carta of Women
(Republic Act No. 9710) defines Gender and Development
Program)
Is a development
perspective that
recognizes the unequal
status and situation of
women and men in
society. https://zrc.pshs.edu.ph/gend
er-and-development-gad-
corner/

5. SEX: identifies the
biological difference
between men and women.
It is determined by
reference to genetic and
anatomical characteristics
SEX is largely
UNCHANGEABLE.
GENDER: refers to the
culturally or socially constructed
roles ascribed to males and
females. It is an acquired identity.
GENDER is cultural and social, IT CAN
BE CHANGED. GENDER also refers to
subjective feelings of maleness or
femaleness (i.i. femininity or
masculinity),
Differentiate Sex and Gender

6. IDENTIFY IF THE
FF. PERTAIN TO
SEX OR GENDER

7. LEADER
MENSTRUATION
COOK
TEACHER
VAGINA
TOY GUNS
BABYSITTING
BREASTFEEDING
SECRETARY
JUDGE
PENIS
DOMESTIC
HELPER
CHILD-BEARING
BARBIE DOLL

8. AN OVER-GENERALIZED BELIEF
IN THE CHARACTERISTICS OF
PERSONS BASED SIMPLY
ONGENDER
GENDER
STEREOTYPES

9. PHYSICAL STEREOTYPE
example: women are weak. Men are strong
PSYCHOLOGICAL STEREOTYPE
example: women are emotional and men are logical.
SEXUAL STEREOTYPE
example : Women are passive partners; men are virile.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC STEREOTYPE
example: Men are the providers of the family; women take
care of the home and child-rearing.

10. GENDER
SOCIALIZATION
or
GENDERING

11. FAMILY SCHOOLS CHURCH/ RELIGION
MASS MEDIA BUSINESS AND MARKET STATE

12. GENDER BIASES AGAINST MEN
 Inherently aggressive and violent
 Don’t feel pain/incapable of experiencing
human relations Inherently expressive in
their sexuality
 Don’t need closeness, reassurance and
attention

13.  Personhood
 Violence
 Marginalization
 Subordination
 Multiple Burden Gender
Stereotyping
GENDER ISSUES & BIASES AFFECT
WOMEN MORE NEGATIVE
EFFECTS

14. Because of uneven and unjust
GENDER POWER RELATIONS
women and men are boxed into
situations – which constrain
their Capacity to do and to be

15. GENDER SENSITIVITY

16. The ability to recognize gender issues,
especially women’s different perceptions
and interests arising from their unique
social location and gender roles
Calls for an understanding and
consideration of the socio-cultural factors
underlying discrimination based on sex
(whether against women or men).

17. GENDER AND
VOLUNTEERING

19. The use or involvement of
volunteer labor, especially in
community services.
Volunteerism is the practice of
providing time and skills for the
benefit of other people and
causes rather than for financial
benefit. In an employment-
related ...
Volunteerism is a form of
helping in which people
actively seek out
opportunities to assist
others in need, make
considerable and
continuing
commitments to ...
https://www.hrzone.com/hr-glossary/what-is-
volunteerism
https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-
sciences/volunteerism

20. •Gender equality in volunteerism is
about how gender roles affect people’s
participation in volunteering itself.
•Volunteerism for gender equality refers
to how volunteers work to promote
gender equality through their
activities.

22. HOW CAN WE ADVANCE
GENDER EQUALITY
THROUGH AS STUDENT,
AS VOLUNTEERS?

24. Gender Equality affords women and men equal
enjoyment of human rights, socially valued goods,
opportunities and resources. It means that the
different behaviors, aspirations and needs of
women and men are considered valued and
treated equally.

25. Gender Equity: fairness in treatment of girls
and boys, women and men, according to their
respective needs. The concepts recognizes that
women and men have different needs and
social power and that rectifies the imbalance
between sexes.

26. Gender integration: Strategies applied in
program planning, assessment, design,
implementation and M&E to consider
gender norms and compensate gender-
based inequalities

27. Women empowerment: Improving
women’s status to enhance their
decision-making capacity, agency and
autonomy at all level

28. Gender mainstreaming: the process of
incorporating a gender perspective into
policies strategies, programs, projects,
activities, administrative functions and
institutional culture of an organization

29. Constructive men’s engagement: involving
men to actively promote gender equality;
increasing men’s support for women’s and
children’s empowerment. Ideally,
constructive men’s engagement initiatives
engage men as client and beneficiaries,
supportive partners of women and agents
of change to promote equitable norms and
relationship

33. Now therefore, use your
person, be a VOLUNTEER of
gender equality and
sensitivity in all your
personal & social
undertakings, and other
opportunities in
advancing GENDER and
DEVELOPMENT