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Lesson 8: Gender Interests and Needs: © 2020 - Not For Sale Prepared By: Ms. Czarina Mae C. Legaspi

The document discusses gender interests and needs in development. It defines gender interests as those developed through social positioning and gender attributes, and divides them into practical and strategic interests. Gender needs are means to satisfy concerns, and are also divided into practical needs like survival and strategic needs relating to issues like power and control.

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Lesson 8: Gender Interests and Needs: © 2020 - Not For Sale Prepared By: Ms. Czarina Mae C. Legaspi

The document discusses gender interests and needs in development. It defines gender interests as those developed through social positioning and gender attributes, and divides them into practical and strategic interests. Gender needs are means to satisfy concerns, and are also divided into practical needs like survival and strategic needs relating to issues like power and control.

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  • Lesson 8: Gender Interests and Needs
  • Learning Objectives
  • Gender Interests and Needs in Development
  • Gender Interest
  • Gender Needs
  • Types of Gender Needs
  • Examples Illustrating Practical/Strategic Gender Interest or Need
  • Conclusion/End

Lesson 8: Gender

Interests and Needs

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Learning Objectives
Analyze the
Discover one's
Differentiate weight of certain
strategic and
gender interest policies in
practical gender
and gender needs response to these
needs.
needs

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Gender Interests and
Needs in Development
Development plans and policies often view women as one
homogenous group, this assumes that the needs of all women
are the same.

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Gender Interest
✢ interests that are developed by men or women
by “virtue of their social positioning through
gender attributes.”
✢ Gender interests are assumed by many to be the
same for all those belonging to the same sex.
✢ Gender interests are divided into two:
practical and strategic, depending on how
these gender interests are addressed.
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Gender Needs
are “means by which their concerns may be satisfied.”

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Types of Gender Needs
✢ Practical ✢ Strategic
concerned with women’s the needs women identify
immediate needs for because of their subordinate
survival – nutrition, living position to men in their society.
conditions, healthcare, and Strategic needs relate to gender
employment. division of labor, power and
control, and may include issues
like legal rights, domestic
violence, equal wages and
women’s control over their
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Examples Illustrating Practical/Strategic
Gender Interest or Need
Gender
Gender Need
Interest
Elimination of
Gender
Practical gender division in
equality
In planning labor
terms Provision of food,
Human
Strategic water, and
Survival
emplotment

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Thanks!

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