The document discusses gender issues and stereotypes. It notes that students learned from textbooks that only men can be kings, soldiers, and doctors, but through experiences like seeing a female doctor, they realized this was not true. It argues that gender is a social issue that affects both men and women, as the power and construction of one gender determines the other. While girls face discrimination, boys also suffer from stereotypes in a patriarchal culture. Therefore, liberating people from gender relations benefits both men and women.

2. ‘‘In my textbooks I learned that only men
are kings and soldiers.
Till I read a book in which famous,
queens ruled and fought against enemies.“
“In my textbooks I learned that only men
are doctors.
When I went to a doctor I saw that
she was a woman.“
“In my textbook I learned that only men
do farming in my country,
until, on a train journey I saw women
working in the fields.
I have learned that I have a lot to learn by seeing.“
– Pooja, Ramya, Anuj, Utkarsh
students of Class VII, Baroda

3. Gender is not a women’s
issue, it is a people’s issue.
WHY???

4. The construction and power
of one determines the
construction and power of
the other.

5. While girls endure
unwarranted social control,
discrimination and domination,
boys too suffer from the
stereotyping that exists in a
patriarchal culture.
Therefore it is in the interest of
both men and women to liberate
human beings from existing
relations of gender.

7. Based on The Functional Literacy, Education
and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) results, the
basic literacy rate of Filipinos in 2008 is 95.6% and
the functional literacy rate is 86.4 %
The literacy rate is higher among 15 to 24
years old or the adolescents. The basic and
functional literacy rates for adolescents are 97.8%
and 91.3%, respectively. This means that
adolescents, in general, are able to read, write and
compute

8. The basic literacy rate and functional
literacy rate of female adolescents are 98.5%
and 94%, respectively.
On the other hand, the basic literacy rate
and functional literacy rate of male
adolescents are 97% and 88.7%, respectively.

10. Women Men
Estimated at 25 million
(86 for every 100
women)
Estimated at 24 million only
(82 for every 100 men).
Women Men
Estimated at 20 million
(69 in every 100)
Estimated at 18 million only
(63 in every 100).

11. At public elementary level during the
school year 2010-2011, female Net
Enrollment Ratio (NER) was computed at
91.07 percent while male NER was lower at
88.78 percent. This means that there were
around 9 in every 100 girls and 11 in every
100 boys aged 6 to 11 who did not go to
school during that period.

12. “The overall education of girls has to
be geared to men‘s needs. To please
them and to be useful to them, to be loved
and respected by them, to bring them up in
their youth and take care of them in old age,
to advise them, to comfort them and sweeten
their lives: these are the women‘s duties at
all
times, this is what they have to learn from
an early age.“