Gender is a range of characteristics pertaining to masculinity and femininity, including biological sex, social structures, and gender identity. Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field focused on analyzing gender identity and representation. It examines how gender is socially constructed distinct from biological sex. Understanding gender and addressing discrimination is important so that all people, regardless of gender, can prosper equally in society.

1. GENDER STUDIES

2. Gend
er
• Gender is the range of characteristics
pertaining to, and differentiating between,
masculinity and femininity.
• Depending on the context, these
characteristics may include biological
sex, sex-based social structures, or
gender identity.
• Gender is a status designation derived from
the physiological aspects link to males
and females to allow individuals to
function within particular social contexts.
Gender is Socially Learned behavior,

3. Gender
studies
• Gender studies is a field for
interdisciplinary study devoted to gender
identity and gender representation as
central categories of analysis.

4. • Sex: biological maleness or
femaleness
genetic – determined by
chromosomes anatomical –
obvious physical differences
between males and
females
• Gender – psychological
aspects of maleness or
femaleness
• Gender Identity – the subjective
Sex and
Gender

5. Gender
• It was formed from old French- gendre
(medern genre) and Latin- Genus (birth,
family, nation) = Gender
• The word gender has been used since the
14th century as a grammatical term
• Gender’ refers to the socially-constructed
roles of and relationships between men
and women.

6. Gender
Symbol
• Female
(left), Male
(right).
• From
symbols
for Venus
and Mars.
“Women and men are more alike than
they are different. Men are not from
Mars; women are not from Venus—

7. GENDER PRIMER
OBJECTIVES
• Understand the difference between
gender and sex
• Consider how gender roles
impact participation
• Appreciate diversity among women
• Identify discrimination and how to
address it

8. Stereotype Gender
Bias
• GENDER IS NOT A “Women’s
Issue” It’s a “People’s Issue”
• It’s the undue pressure on Boys & Girls
to live up to the established norms of
Masculinity & femininity
• Girls endure unwarranted social
control, discrimination & domination
• Boys discouraged from being emotional,
gentle or fearful thrust into a world of
Macho Protectors, Warriors, Breadwinners

10. We need to study gender
studies
Some of the important issues of life
revolve around being a man, or being
a woman, or inhabiting a post-binary
invention of gender
• To distinguish what is right and
wrong.
• To avoid (consideration) girls
(Women) as a sex object.

11. We need to study gender
studies
• To consider each and every human
being as equal.
• To understand the discrimination on the
basis of their gender. Even
transgenders are at par with men and
women.
• To avoid the arrogance in man
• To understand that the society will
exist only and only if all genders
prosper equally.

12. Gender
roles

13. Gender
role
• Gender Role – attitudes and behaviors
considered appropriate in a specific
culture for people of a particular sex
• Expectations we should fulfill
• Masculine or Feminine
• Vary widely from culture to
culture but rapidly evolving