1. Basic Concept of Gender

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3. Sex Gender Biological differences between men and women.
Not vary with race, caste, class, ethnicity, religion, and time.
Women’s ability to give birth, breast feed.
Gender
Social differences between men and women
Manifested in different roles, qualities and behaviors of women, men and society as a whole.
Vary with race, caste, class, ethnicity, religion, relation position, situations, age, time.
Vary with situations, the same person may behave differently in different contexts. 3

4. Gender roles Refers to socially differentiated roles of men and women
Gender roles can be changed easily through sensitization of women and men.
Productive Role
Reproductive role
Community Role

5. Gender roles
Double Day
Triple Role
Women’s

6. Gender Needs Practical gender needs (PGN):
Related to immediate needs of living, such as food, drinking water, health care and medical support.
Strategic gender needs (SGN):
Related to gender divisions of labor, equal wages, resources and education, and women’s control over their bodies.
Necessary to encompass social and political reforms for ensuring power and control, legal rights, reduce domestic violence, .
These measures are seen as relatively long-term objectives.

7. Gender Equality and Equity
Gender Equality VS
Gender Equity
Gender Equality
Gender Equity

8. Gender sensitization tools

9. Tool-1: Gender Equity Analysis
Education
Asset
Control
Right
Power
Inequity
Equity
Education
Asset
Control
Right
Power
Inequity

10. Tool-2: Access -Control Analysis
MEN
WOMEN
Access
Cows
Grass
Money
Land
Feed
Milk
Control
Asset
Red = Low
Yellow = Moderate
Green = High

11. Access Control Availability- can own Asset
Handiness- Able to use when required
Control
Authority/Autonomy- Right or permission or liberty to use the asset (Sell)
Decision making- power to make decisions within the household and community
Command- Access power to direct or regulate resource
ability to use effectively
Power- to influence or direct people’s behavior or the course of events.

12. Tool-3: Time Meter Tool

13. Tool-4: Barrier Tree Analysis
Effect
Root
Stem
Branches
Barrier
Causes

14. Control over asset, income Institutions, ideology
Four Major Women Barriers
Workload
Control over asset, income
Institutions, ideology
Mobility

15. Women’s Empowerment Framework
(CARE Framework)

16. Women’s Empowerment in Programming
CARE defines WE as the combined effect of changes in:

17. x + CARE’S Women’s Empowerment : Theory of Change
Women will be empowered by:
Exercise of greater choice in decisions affecting their lives
Strong Social Movements based on solidarity between men and women
Reduce violence against women x +