Gender Development

Chapter 7
Gender and Development
Prepared by:
Abonitalla, Carla C.
Pepino, Fairee Jane S.
Samonte, Roselle Y.
MWF 11-12nn Edcon2 N21
Hazel R. Estrella, MAED
Associate Professor

Theories of Gender
Development
 Social Learning Theory
 Cognitive-Developmental Theory
 Gender Schema Theory
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Social Learning Theory
Social Learning Theory
believes that parents,
as the distributors of
reinforcement,
reinforce appropriate
gender role behaviors.
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Cognitive-Developmental Theory
It is derived from Kohlberg’s
speculations about gender
development. We know from
Piaget’s work that children
engage in symbolic thinking by
about two years of age.
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Gender Schema Theory
A schema is a mental
blueprint for organizing
information. Such a
schema helps a children
to develop gender
identity and formulate
an appropriate gender
role.
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What is Gender
Stereotyping?
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Gender stereotyping is defined as the beliefs human hold
about the characteristics associated with males and females.
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Obviously, that rough, noisy person is
a boy, and that gentle, soft spoken,
obedient is a girl.
A stereotype is a schema or a set of
beliefs about a certain group of people.
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Gender equality gives women and
men the same entitlements to all aspects
of human development, including
economic, social cultural, civic and
political rights, the same level of respect,
the same opportunities to make choices,
and the same level of power to shape
the outcomes of this choices.
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“Strong evidence from around the world confirms that gender equality accelerates
overall economic growth, strengthens democratic governance, and reduces
poverty and insecurity”
Giving women equal rights and opportunities can only serve to enhance this
contribution and to bring us closer to the goal of eliminating poverty, hunger, and
disease.
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Reducing gender inequality in the labor market will increase women’s economic
security and contribute economic development and growth.
Promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women is an effective strategy to
ensure that the other Millennium Development Goals are achieved.
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Gender
Inequality
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First, women get less of the material resources,
social status, power, and opportunities for self-
actualization than do men who share their social
locations – be it a location based on class, race,
occupation, ethnicity, religion, education,
nationality or any other socially significant factors.
Second, this inequality results from the
organization of society, not from any significant
biological or personality differences between men
and women.
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Third, although individual human beings may vary somewhat from each other in their
profile of potentials and traits, no significant pattern of natural variation distinguishes
the sexes.
Fourth, all inequality theories assume that both men and women will respond fairly
easily and naturally to more egalitarian social structures and situations.
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Gender
- refers to the different ways men
and women play in society, and to
the relative power they wield.
- is expressed differently in different
societies, there is no society where
men and women perform equal
roles or hold equal positions of
power.
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Power
- is a basic fabric of society and is possessed in varying degrees
by social actors in diverse social categories.
- it become abusive and exploitative only when independence and
individuality of one person or group of people become so
dominant that freedom for the other is compromised.
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