ECHO COMPANY COMMUNITY IMMERSION PROGRAM

Gender Awareness
&
Development

By: PAT GENIKKA L GUINTO

President, Echo Company
This lesson aims to provide the
participants an overview and
purpose of Gender and
Development
GENDER

• socially learned behavior

•expectations associated with men and

women

•socially differentiated roles and

characteristics attributed by a given
culture to men and women
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Sex

• biological identity of a person

•indicates whether one is a male or female,

man or woman, boy or girl
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GAD
•Gender and Development - development
perspective that recognizes the
legitimacy of gender equality as a
fundamental value.
•both men and women must equally
contribute to and benefit from all
programs of the government.
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Discrimination Against Women

•any distinction, exclusion or restriction

made on the basis of sex that affects
women’s enjoyment of political,
economic, social, cultural, civil or any
other rights, on an equal basis with
women
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Violence Against Women

• discrimination against women
• gender-based violence
• physical, sexual, psychological harm
or suffering to women
• threats, coercion, arbitrary deprivation
of liberty
• reprisals, exploitation, harassment,
other forms of control
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SEX GENDER
BORN WITH SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED

CANNOT BE CHANGED CHANGEABLE

- only women can give birth - women can do
traditionally
- only men can produce male jobs
sperm - men can take good
TBIRC care of children
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Reproductive Function
MALE FEMALE
Ovum fertilization Gestation

Sperm determines Child Bearing

sex of child

Lactation
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• important consideration in development

•looking at how social norms and power

structures affect on the lives and opportunities
available to different groups of men and
women
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•many thought that men are more supreme

than women because they were stronger

•knowledge and practice that we have

learned from GAD opens our minds that
women too can do what men can in terms of
education and jobs
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RA 9262 (Anti-VAWC Act)

•Special law that defines acts of violence

against women and their children, or “VAWC”;
penalizes such acts; and provides protective
measures and remedies
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RA 6955 (Anti-Mail Order Bride Act)

• An act to declare unlawful practice of
matching Filipino women for marriage to
foreign nationals on a mail order basis and
other similar practices, including the
advertisement, publication, printing or
distribution of brochures, fliers and other
propaganda materials in furtherance thereof
and providing penalty thereof.
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RA 7877 (Anti-Sexual Harassment Act)

•An act declaring sexual harassment unlawful

in the employment, education or training
environment, and for other purposes.
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RA 8353 (Anti-Rape Act)

• An act expanding the definition of the
crime of rape, reclassifying the same as the
crime against persons, amending for the
purpose Act No. 3815, as amended,
otherwise known as the revised penal code,
and for the purpose.
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RA 9208 (Anti-Trafficking in Human Beings

Act)
• An act to institute policies to eliminate
trafficking in persons specially women and
children, establishing the necessary
institutional mechanisms for the protection
and support of trafficked person, providing
penalties for its violations, and other
purposes.
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RA 9710 (Magna Carta of Women)

• Comprehensive women's human rights law
that seeks to eliminate discrimination
through the recognition, protection,
fulfillment and promotion of the rights of
Filipino women, especially those belonging in
the marginalized sectors of the society. It
conveys a framework of rights for women
based directly on international law.