Name: MARIA ANASTASIA G.

MALDO
Course: BSEE 2-A
Student Number: 201109406
Date: 11/14/2021

Gender-based Violence:

Power, Use of Force and Consent

Activity 1

Write down words/phrases or draw symbols which show what comes to your mind when
you hear the word:

Power
-Leader
-Alpha (Male)
-Money
-Fame
-President
-Control
-Dominance

Violence
-Oppress
-Beaten up
-Is intimidated
-Pressured
-Threatened
-Coerced
-A life within a community

Consent

-Approve
-Submission
-Awake and aware of their own choices
-Says “yes” to one thing
-Is in a position of trust or authority
-Ask and obtain clear permission
 Activity 2

Read the following cases and reflect on the succeeding questions.

ANSWERS:

1. Yes. In some cases arrange marriage still happened especially in elite families or in the
culture with the same tradition of marrying someone according to family’s agreement.
2. Yes, since it was said to be a tradition, she might as well not very ignorant of how it
works and how it should be done.
3. No force happened because it was all settled. The only case for the girl is, she doesn’t
know the guy yet. But still, she didn’t brag a petition or some sort. The most powerful
in the example is of course the father, it was a literally a traditional patriarchy family so
it wasn’t a surprise if the father holds the prestige.
4. Social power. The father shows dominance and authorities in this case, well no doubt,
the father holds the power anyway.
5. While the daughter submits to whatever the father or the family wants her to settle with
as if she had no choice but to let them decide for her future. More so it was Age-related
power.
6. Power is something that is connected to superiority and the father is a representation of
someone who has a power to command about something, while the daughter is what
we called the subordinate or the one with less power.
ANSWERS:

1. Yes, actually there are instances that this situation could happen in some school
universities, perhaps it’s a phenomenological issue that many of us think.
2. No, unfortunately the case 2 shows the acts of gender-based violence where the professor
used some kind of force to get her or to agree of what he wish to happen.
3. The kind of power the professor have is the social power.
4. The student actually don’t have the power but in this case it still can fall under the age-
related power.
5. Power can be sometimes abuse by someone who wanted to take advantage it. The one
with authority or position that creates a gender based violence.
 ASSESSMENT

Group yourselves into three. Each member will be assigned the three concepts from which
they will identify the sources of these three, examples of these three and impact of these
concepts to the individual and community. Use the following matrix.

POWER USE OF FORCE/VIOLENCE INFORMED CONSENT

Sources Examples Impact Sources Examples Impact Sources Examples Impact

1. In the 1.In any
1.Government 1.Corruption 1. Increase 1. Men that 1. Rape 1. Doctors/ 1. Informed
aftermath of a medical
officials / inequality, uses drugs or healthcare Medical
sexual assault setting,
Elected 2. Physical reduce public alcoholic 2. provider Consent
or rape, decisions are
Leaders and accountability Blackmailing survivors can made often.
emotional and political -it could also 2. Members/ 2. Fraternity
face extremely Doctors need
2. Parents abuse response, and be a Father or 3. Kidnap for difficult and Councils to reach a
thereby increase a brother ransom 3. Bilateral
painful diagnosis,
3. Men being -Harassment frustration. emotions and 3. Agreement agreement then decide
superior in the or Sexual 2. A person experiences. between two which
household Assault 2. Physical that holds Every person treatment
abuse may lead something survivor makes the
3. Domestic to bruises, cuts, against responds to most sense
Violence welts, burns, someone. traumatic based on a
fractures, events in their patient’s
internal injuries, 3. Armed own way. needs. In
or in the most person some
extreme cases /Terrorist or situations,
2.
death. kidnappers these
Blackmailing
Emotional decisions are
hurts people
abuse contribute made
and can ruin
to depression quickly if
their
and low self- there is an
reputation
esteem. While emergency.
and
harassment or
relationship.
Sexual Assault
It can also 2. A
may lead to
cause trouble fraternity can
trauma, mental
with the law. become
illness and
dangerous,
sometimes
3. once it loses
death.
Kidnappings its aim. It
cause deep can also
3. Violence leads to bad
emotional and
against women habits, social
mental scars
can lead to long- exclusivity
that leave
term physical and lower
victims to
and mental grades.
battle through
health problems.
issues of trust,
Violence and
independence, 3. Bilateral
abuse affect not
love, sex, agreement
only affected
respect, and a provide each
women, but
litany of other to
their children,
others. access in
families and
something.
communities.
 These effects The
include harm to agreement
personal health, also creates
potentially long- an
term harm to environment
children, and that
harm to promotes
communities fairness since
such as a set of rules
unemployment is observed.
and the
homeless.

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