The document discusses promoting gender sensitivity in schools. It defines key terms like gender and gender sensitivity. It outlines ways to promote awareness in parents and teachers, such as using gender-neutral language and textbooks, implementing teacher training programs, and establishing school-parent partnerships. It also lists roles teachers should play, like understanding gender roles, attending gender sensitivity trainings, treating all students equally, and working to establish a gender-responsive school environment.

1. Gender Sensitivity

2. INTRODUCTION:
 Schools and homes are the basic sources of
development of the understanding and gender
relations.
 Gender issues prevail in society in all areas of
life.

3. 1. Terms Used Related to Gender Sensitivity
 Gender
 “the social relations of gender”
 It focuses on the attributes acquired in the
process of socialization: our self and group
definitions, our sense of appropriate roles,
values and behaviors, and above all, expected
and acceptable interactions in relationship
between women and men.”

4.  Gender sensitivity we mean gender
awareness.
 Gender sensitivity pertains to one’s effort to
show how gender shapes the roles of women
and men society, including their role in
development, and how it affects relations
between them.

5. 2. HOW TO PROMOTE AWARENESS IN PARENTS AND TEACHERS
Curriculum /Text Educational System
Guidelines by Gender Experts
Role of Governmental and Non
Governmental Organization
Institutionalization of Special
Committees/Groups in Academic Setting
Use of Gender Sensitive Vocabulary Educational Policies
Teacher Training Programs Extra Fringe Benefits
Gender Sensitive Organization Culture
Allocation of Budget
Monitoring
School – Parent Partnership
Gender Mainstreaming
Creation of a Gender Responsive School
Gender Sensitivity Counseling
Commitment From Senior
Leadership/Government
Gender Audit
Gender Trainings / Sensitization Sessions
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6. Curriculum / Text
 It is important that all text, reading material
and books be free of notion of gender
inequality as bias is embedded in textbooks,
lessons and teachers’ interactions with
students.
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7. Educational System
 Educational System needs to be gender-
sensitive and gender-friendly for girls and
boys.
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8. Guidelines By Gender Experts
 There’s a need for the development of criteria
of meeting gender sensitive guidelines.
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9. Role of Governmental and Non –
Governmental Organization
 Governmental and Non – Governmental
Organization can play a pivotal role in
promoting gender equality.
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10. Use of Gender Sensitive Vocabulary
 Gender neutral language needs to be
promoted at all levels and throughout the
institutions for students, staff, and faculty and
management levels.
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11. Educational Policies
 All policies, programs, and interventions need
to be gender – sensitive.
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12. Teacher Training Programs
 All teachers should be gender – sensitized.
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13. Extra Fringe Benefits
 Benefits must be offered in rural areas to
promote girl education.
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14. School – Parent Partnership
 parent partnership needs to be strengthened to
identify and address gender issues in homes
and in educational institutions.
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15. Gender Trainings / Sensitization
sessions
 Gender trainings must be provided for
parents, teachers, staff, administrators and
local officials.
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16. Monitoring
• Gender sensitivity progress must be constantly
reviewed by gender experts and steps should
be taken to sustain the same.
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17. Gender Sensitivity Counseling
 Gender sensitivity counseling must be made
available for students staff, teachers and
parents.
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18. Allocation of Budget
 Educational authorities and schools must be
provided with a suitable budget to promote and
sustain the gender sensitive agenda.
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19. Commitment from Senior
Leadership/Government
 Gender fair practices are effective when top
leadership supports gender equity and equality
measures.
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20. Gender Sensitive Organizational
Culture
 Organizational change needs to be
institutionalized by promoting gender
balanced staff, gender sensitive governance
structure; equal valuing of women and men’s
working styles etc.
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21. Gender Audit
• Gender audit of institutions should be carried
out by gender experts to review curriculum,
policies, programs, interventions etc.
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22. Creation of a Gender Responsive
School
 A gender responsive school is one where
academic, social and physical environment and
its surrounding community take into account
the specific need of both girls and boys.
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23. Institutionalization of Special
Committees / Groups in academic
settings
 in order to promote gender-friendly and safe
invironment for children it is important to
institutionalized special committees.
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24. Gender mainstreaming
 Is essential to mainstream gender in all
institutions of society.
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25. Role of Media
 Media constantly reinforces the traditional
stereotypes of women and men.
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26. 3. Gender mainstreaming
HOW TO ADOPT
GENDER
MAINSTREAMING
Train Teachers in
Gender education
Conduct Gender
Analysis
Train for gender
sensitivity
Develop set of
criteria to rid
textbooks of gender
bias and sex
stereotyping
Review policies for
possible
discriminatory
clauses
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27.  Train teachers in gender equality educacation
to have it actualized more effectively at school
sites.
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28.  Gender analysis should be conducted through
the curriculum materials, teaching and learning
processes, school structure and culture.
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29.  School-parent partnership on gender issues
should be strengthened by parents, teachers,
administrators and local officials.
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30.  Gender sensitivity training needs to be
mandatory for all teacher training programs,
certificate and academic courses.
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31.  The key officials of both DEPED and CHED
from the top echelon down to lowest level of
school managers should undergo a series of
gender sensitivity training sessions.
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32.  The authors, publishers, Board on textbooks
and other concerned agencies stereotyping and
continue to review existing textbooks and
teacher manuals in the elementary and
secondary levels.
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33.  Concerned school officials should review
policies for possible discriminatory clauses on
student admission requirements.
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34. ROLES THAT
THE TEACHERS
SHOULD PLAY
TO ADDRESS
GENDER
SENSITIVITY
ISSUES
Find
appropriate
time to raise
gender
issues
Conduct
Researches
Promote
gender
responsive
school
Strive to work
hand in hand
with school
administrator
Cooperate
with
Government
and Non-
Government
organization
Attend
Gender
Trainings
Understand
Gender
Roles and
Expectations
Treat every
boy and girl
equally
Initiate
Information
Dissemination
campaign
gender-fair
education
4. Roles Teachers Should Play to Address Gender Sensitivity Issues
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35.  Teachers should understand gender roles and
expectations to help them analyze their own
differential behaviors towards boys and girls.
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36.  Teachers should attend gender trainings so
that they can facilitate the change to be
brought about the curriculum materials such as
syllabus, modules instructional aides and
others.
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37.  Teachers should cooperate with government
and non-government organizations to meet the
challenges of minimizing gender
discrimination and promoting gender equality.
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38.  Teachers should strive to work hand in hand
with school administrators so that gender
sensitive organizational culture will be
institutionalized.
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39.  Teachers should be active and decisive in
promoting a gender responsive school where
the academic, social and physical environment
and its surrounding community take into
account the specific needs of both boys and
girls.
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40.  Teachers should conduct researches on gender
sensitivity issues to properly address
inequalities and discrimination between men
and women.
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41.  Teachers should find appropriate time during
assemblies, conferences, meetings and the like
to raise gender issues concerns.
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42.  Teachers should initiate information
dissemination campaign on gender-fair
education and include in school papers articles.
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43.  Above all, teachers should treat every boy and
every girl equally in all aspects.
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