This document discusses gender identity and the factors that influence it. It explains that gender identity is a person's internal sense of their own gender, which may correspond with or differ from their sex assigned at birth. Gender identity is shaped by both biological factors like genes and hormones, as well as social and environmental influences from family, culture, and media. The roles of family, society, and media in socializing children and promoting gender stereotypes are also examined.

1. A PRESENTATION BY
AMANINDER SANDHU
B.ED 1ST ,SLDAV COLLEGE
(AMBALA CITY)

4. GENDER IDENTITY
• Gender identity is the
personal sense of one’s own
gender .
• Gender identity can correlate
with sex at birth , or can
differ from it.
• Gender refers to how a
particular culture
differentiates masculine &
feminine social roles.
• Males and females , a
gender binary system and
which includes expectations
of masculinity and femininity

6. UNDERSTANDINGGENDERCANBEBROKENINTO
4 PARTS:
• Understanding the concept of gender .
• Learning gender role standards and
stereotypes .
• Identifying with parents .
• Forming gender preferences .

7. Biological Factors :
 Several prenatal , biological factors ,including
genes and hormones , may effect gender identity .
 The biochemical theory of gender identity suggests
that people acquire gender identities through such
factors rather than socialization .
 Hormonal influences are also complex ; sex
determining hormones are produced at an early
stage of fetal development

8. Gender role :
• Gender identity also
has a strong relation
with social and
environment factors ;
such factors would
mostly include the
attitudes of the
parents raising the
child and their culture.
• Children learn from

9. IDENTITY WORK IS GENDERED DURING A WORK
TRANSITION IN 3 WAYS :
• Career transition is the area where gender identity work is
prevalent , career changed is the moving from a victim
position and adopting temporary position as an active and
heroic career .
• Need of career change can happen when the reason for not
being able to feel authentic at work , due to gender .
• The struggle between conflicting identity , position may
invoke negotiation between an identity position in which one
has been placed .
NATURE Vs NATURE
Social factors which may influence gender identity include
ideas regarding gender roles conveyed by family , authority
figures, mass media, and other influential people in child’s
life .

11. •Role Of Family
The family is the most important social
group in society. It’s also the most
important influences in a child’s life. The
family plays an essential role in child’s :
> In Education , Physical and
Emotional Needs.
> In Protection and Material Support.
> In Nurture, Love and give Emotional
Support. > In
Spiritual Guidance.

12. # FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION
CHILDREN INTERIORIZE THEIR
PARENT’S MODEL DIFFERENT THINGS .
EACH PARTNER HAS ESTABLISHED
THEIR RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES .
• With changing tradition the roles of gender are
also changing & seems to be difficult .
• Women become more ambitious and independent
& men are more emotional and involved in
household tasks .
• Most of men consider woman’s career as a
conflicting sources because they think women will
neglect their family, increase in professional
competition &risk of deterioration of marital

15. • In many societies family system is gender
biased & everyone has their specific roles.
• But in today’s modern life women & men share
their responsibilities & do everything mutually
whether it is household work or professional.
• All live together , take decisions together
criticizing and encouraging mutually & yet
being independent and responsible .

16. • The modern social structure sees both
men and women as equal partners of
the society with equal rights , status
and responsibilities .
• The aspect of equality will give rise to
certain issues too ,’who is to direct?
who is to directed?’
• If not handled well , the family become

17. • # Family is not just an
institution of many people
living together under one roof
; but the union of similar
minded and mutually loving
people bound with certain
duties & responsibilities.
• #the gender role structure
was designed to help the
people accept their duties . But
today , both parents are
working and earning . Now the
role of homemaker becomes
no one’s responsibilities.

19. • Mediaand gender refers to the relationship between
mediaand gender , and howgender is represented
withinmedia.
• These platforms include but are not limitedto film
,television ,journalism and video games.
• Initiatives and resources exist to promotegender
equalityand reinforce women’sempowerment in the
mediaindustryand representations.

20. • Numbers of women in
media professions, such
as journalism, is
growing ; however, the
media is and has been
statistically dominated
by men , who hold the
vast majority of power
positions
• Studies show that men
are more likely to be
quoted than women in
the media , and more
likely to cover “serious
” topics .

21. • Studies have found that although the number of women
working in the media has been increasing globally , the
top positions are still very male dominated.
• Female journalists are more likely to be assigned ‘soft’
subjects such as family , lifestyle, fashion and arts
• The ‘hard’ news, politics and the economy, is much less
likely to be written or covered by women.

22. GENDER STEREOTYPES

31. GENDER ROLES AND
STEREOTYPES
• Creating a school that nurtures
academic achievement , provides
physical and emotional safety and
welcomes all students and families are
goals common to all educators.
• One way to do this is to create a gender
expansion environment where all the
students can thrive and learn to their
fullest potential.
• There are to traits or characters that
are exclusively possessed by boys or
girls.

32. Health impact of stereotypes
• For both boys and girls , the more traditional
assumption about what it means to be and how
you should behave as a girl , the rates of
depression.
• Holding these very traditional stereotypes about
yourself as a boy or a girl is not healthy at all .