This document discusses gender sensitization and related topics. It defines gender sensitization as creating awareness about gender equality and examining attitudes and thought processes related to gender bias. It discusses how gender sensitization works to modify behaviors and instill empathy through awareness campaigns, workshops, education, and socialization. Key topics covered include sex and gender differences, gender stereotypes, issues faced by women such as violence and discrimination, and legal protections and initiatives promoting women's empowerment and rights. The need for ongoing gender sensitization efforts is highlighted by statistics on continuing high levels of crimes against women in India.

1. Dr Anil Bhatt
Assistant professor
Dept of Higher Education

2. UNIVERSAL CONCERNS
ENVIRONMENT
GENDER
SOCIETY

3. WHAT IS GENDER SENSITISATION
 Gender Sensitisation is creating awareness
about gender equality and examines the
personal attitudes, thought processes related
to gender bias questioning the realities of
both sexes.
 Gender sensitisation is about bringing in
modification of behaviour thereby instilling
empathy into the views, beliefs that we hold
about our own and other sex by spreading
awareness on gender equality concerns

4. HOW………………………………………
CAMPAIGNS WORKSHOPS
EDUCATION SOCIALISATION
LEGAL/CONSTITUTIONAL

5. INITIATIVES…….
 1st World Conference on Women- 1975- Mexico (Gender
Discrimination)
 2nd World Conference on Women- 1980- Copenhagen
(Achieving targets of 1975 Conference)
 3rd World Conference on Women- 1985- Nairobi (Political
and social participation, Decision making)
 4th World Conference on Women 1995- Beijing
(Empowerment and enhancement)
 National Commission of Women (Chairperson Ms Rekha
Sharma)
 State Commission For women
 Karl Waldheim Sec Gen UNO(1975)- We must think
positively about the position of women in their own societies
and international affairs for the benefit of all

6. SEX AND GENDER
SEX- of an individual is characterised by
Physical(Biological) characteristics on the
basis of
 Anatomy
 Chromosomes
 Anatomy
 Hormones
 Reproductive system
 Determines Male Or Female

7. GENDER
Gender is a social construct
 Born Male and Female but made to behave
as girls and boys
 Learnt Behaviour creates gender identity
(how one feels internally) or gender roles
 Dos and Don’t’s
 Masculinity and Femininity
 Changeable/ Dynamic
 Differs from culture to culture

8. GENDER STEREOTYPES
 A general view or perception about
attributes or behavior and roles ought to be
possessed and performed by women
 Stereotypes about gender can cause
unequal and unfair treatment because of a
person's gender. This is called sexism.
 . Gender stereotypes can have an adverse
effect on all genders, as young people find
themselves regularly exposed to messages
about how boys and girls should look,
behave and play.

9. GENDER STEREOTYPES OR MYTHS
FEMALE MALE
Girls play with dolls Boys love soccer
Girls can cry Boys should show a brave
face
Girls are submissive Boys need to be assertive
Girls are patient Boys are Adventurous
Girls are home makers Boys are earners

10. GENDER SENSITISATION COVERS…….
 Gender Equality- Art -14, 15, 16, etc
 Discrimination (Preferential treatment)
 Empowerment- Position/Access/Control/decision
making
 Approach Towards Sex/ Gender- culture, customs,
stereotypes
 Traditional / Patriarchal Mindset
 Crime Against Women
 Legal Awareness- IPC-376(Rape), Mental physical
torture 498A, 509-Sexual Harassment, 354-
Molestation
 Socialisation through family, teachers, media,

11. GENDER ISSUES
 Female Infanticide- UN says- Approx 2000 unborn
girls illegally aborted in India
 Dowry- Female is unproductive
 Early Marriages- Nigeria, Bangladesh, Mozambique,
India(2021 stats)
 Acid Attack- 228 cases in 2018, 182 in 2020
 Domestic Violence- cases increased by 53% from
2001 to 2018
 Sexual Harassment- ME TOO movement in 2018
 Inadequate Nutrition- due to poverty, awareness and
discrimination,
 Prostitution
 Rape- 31,667 reported in 2021. 4th most common crime
against women, 86 cases of rape reported daily.( NCRB)
96% are known to the victim. (Rajasthan )

12. FIGHTBACK……………………………
 Bhanwari Devi
 A social worker in Rajasthan.
 She was gang raped because she tried to stop a child
marriage in a village.
 Accused were acquitted
 Some NGOs came together and filed a petition under the
collective name VISHAKA
 Vishaka and Others vs. state of Rajasthan
 Supreme Court set guidelines for sexual harassment at
work place . An act came out in 2013
 Movie named BAWANDAR in 2000 was based on
Bhanwri Devi

13. BREAKING THE STEREOTYPES….
Dr Kiran Bedi 1st Woman I P S officer
Mrs Indira Gandhi 1st Woman Prime
Minister
Nikhat Zareen Gold medal in Boxing
Karnam Malleshwari Weight Lifting
Shruti Sharma, Ankita
Agarwal, Gamini Singla
First three toppers In
UPSC 2022
Shreya Pathak CBSE TOPPED
500/500
Shanan Dhaka from
Rohtak
Tops NDA Entrance
Exam
On September 22, 2021,
the Supreme Court ruled
that women candidates
are allowed to appear
for the NDA entrance

14. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT(POWER WITHIN)
LEGAL
SAFEGUARDS
PSYCHOLOGIC
AL
POLITICAL
DECSION
MAKING
ECONOMI
C
Education
Access, Control, Awareness, skill
welfare

15. THIRD GENDER
 On 15th April 2014, Supreme Court of India has ruled that
transgender persons have a right to be legally recognized
according to their self-identified gender, including a third
gender. Failure to provide such legal recognition amounts
to a breach of the right to equality before the law, non-
discrimination on the basis of sex and the right to life and
liberty with dignity.
 Examples-A 38-year-old man-to-woman transgender
person, Aishwarya Rituparna Pradhan is India's first
transgender civil servant serving as a commercial tax
officer in the Odisha Financial Services (OFS).
 Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019

16. WHY GENDER SENSITISATION?
2012 Nirbhaya Case 31,677 cases of rape
registered in the
country last year,
Crime against women
rose by 15.3 per cent in
2021
1 dowry death
every hour
UP, Maharashtra Rajasthan tops in
crimes against Women
7634 Dowry deaths in
2015
women face sexual
harassment at work
place(95% of
women workforce
are in informal
sector)
Among UTs,
Delhi had the
highest rate of
crime against
women in 2021

17. LEGAL SAGEGUARDS
 Article 14
 Article 15
 Rape Sec 376 IPC
 Molestation 354 of IPC
 Sexual Harassment 509 IPC
 Hindu Marriage Act- 1955
 Special Marriage Act 1954
 Domestic Violence Act 2005
 Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006
 Immoral Traffic Prevention Act 1956
 Commission of Sati Act 1987
 Dowry Prohibition Act 1961
 Hindu Succession Act 1956
 Pre- natal diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex selection
Act)1994
 Sexual harassment of women at Work Place Act 2013

18. TIME TO CHANGE THE MINDSET

19. THANK YOU