POLICE REGIONAL OFFICE 1

GENDER AND
DEVELOPMENT

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 KNOW YOUR FACILITATOR
Police Major
Chief, PPS, RCADD, PRO 1
Professional Teacher
Criminologist
2002 Class KAAGAPAY
2011 Class PINAGPALA
PSOAC, PSOBC, PSJLC, PSBRC…
PCADC, IDC, IOBC…
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SEQUENCE OF PRESENTATION
• Lesson Goal and Objectives
• Legal bases
• Basic GAD Concept
• Basic Gender Socializing Factors
• Gender Mainstreaming
• GAD Plans and Budget
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 LESSON GOAL
The goal of this lesson is designed for PNP
Personnel to enhance self-awareness on gender
concerns and issues affecting relationships at various
levels within family, workplace, and the community.

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 LESSON OBJECTIVES
At the end of this segment of instruction, we will be able to:
1. Identify the difference between sex and gender;
2. Increase the level of understanding on Gender Awareness and
Sensitivity;
3. Provide opportunity to understand and analyze gender issues and
concerns; and
4. Encourage the participants to develop a vision of gender-fair society.

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LEGAL BASES

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 LEGAL BASES
1. Republic Act 7192 “Women in Nation Building Act” (1992)
- an act promoting the integration of women as full and equal
partners of men in development and nation building and for
other purposes

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 LEGAL BASES
2. Republic Act 9710 “Magna Carta of Women” (2009)
- is comprehensive women's human rights law that seeks
to eliminate discrimination against women by recognizing,
protecting, fulfilling and promoting the rights of Filipino women,
especially those in marginalized sector.

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 LEGAL BASES
3. Republic Act 8551 “PNP Reform and Reorganization

Act” (1998)

TITLE VII

CREATION OF WOMEN’S DESK IN ALL POLICE STATIONS

AND THE FORMULATION OF GENDER SENSITIVE
PROGRAM

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 LEGAL BASES
4. Sec 27 of RA 8760 otherwise known as the General
Appropriation Act of 2000;

• shall formulate a GAD Plan, designed to empower women

and address gender issues, in accordance with R.A. 7192
and the Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development
(PPGD), 1995-2025
• shall be at least five percent (5%) of the agency’s total budget
appropriations

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 LEGAL BASES
5. Creation of Family Juvenile Gender and Development
Division (FJGADD) 2002
 
2002- Reconstitution of FJGAD as a Division of DPCR by virtue
of DPL Circular 2002-001

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 LEGAL BASES
6. PNP Memorandum Circular 2004-02 re-PNP Guidelines in
the Implementation of GAD Program vis-à-vis Utilization of
the GAD Funds representing 5% of the Agency Budget
(2004)
 

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 LEGAL BASES
7. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights (ICESCR)
Date Signed 19 December 1966
Date Ratified 7 June 1974

The Philippines commits itself:

To undertake to guarantee that the rights in ICESCR will be
exercised without discrimination of any kind as to race, color,
sex, language xxx

 
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 LEGAL BASES
The Philippines commits itself:
To ensure the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of
all economic, social and cultural rights

*Right to work and just and favorable conditions of work

*No marriage without the free and full consent,

 
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 LEGAL BASES
8. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
(ICCPR)

The Philippines commits itself:

To ensure to all individuals the rights recognized in ICCPR,
without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex,
language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social
origin, property, birth or other status

*No marriage without the free and full consent

*Equality of rights and responsibilities of spouses as to marriage,
during marriage and at its dissolution
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 LEGAL BASES
9. Convention on the Elimination of All forms of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

The Philippines commits itself:

To incorporate the principle of equality of men and women in
their legal system, abolish all discriminatory laws and adopt
appropriate ones prohibiting discrimination against women.

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 LEGAL BASES
10. 1987 Constitution: ARTICLE II, State Policies and
Declarations Section 14.

The State recognizes the role of women in nation-building, and

shall ensure the fundamental equality before the law of
women and men.

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 LEGAL BASES
11. Beijing Platform for Action (BPA) of The Fourth World
Conference on Women (FCWC) that requires actions on the
12 areas of concern affecting women:

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 LEGAL BASES
1. Women and poverty
2. Education and training of
women
3. Women and health
4. Violence against women
5. Women and armed conflict
6. Women and the economy
and globalization
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7. Women in power and decision
making
8. Institutional mechanisms
9. Human rights of women
10.Women and the media
11.Women and the environment
12. The girl child
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 BASIC
GAD CONCEPT

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 BASIC GAD CONCEPT

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 BASIC GAD CONCEPT
Sex
- refers to the TWO categories of
being Male and Female – needed
for the act of mating to result in
biological reproduction
- biologically determined
- constant across time, across
different societies and cultures
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Gender
- Refers to the differentiated social roles,
behaviors, capacities, intellectual,
emotional and social characteristics
attributed by a given culture to women
and men
- It is what makes one masculine or
feminine
- socially determined and a learned
behavior
- changes across time, places and
culture.
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 BASIC GAD CONCEPT
SEX ROLE FUNCTION - role which male or female assumes
because of basic physiological or anatomical differences
Reproductive Function
MALE FEMALE
Ovum fertilization Gestation
Sperm determines sex of child Child Bearing
Lactation

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 BASIC GAD CONCEPT
GENDER ROLE
- roles assigned to men and women based on their gender

- refers to activities which are considered appropriate and

acceptable for boys or girls; men or women

- part of gender norms; it is society’s evaluation of behavior as

masculine or feminine

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 BASIC GAD CONCEPT

GENDER NORMS

– way by which a society expects men and women to behave and

the different values associated with being a boy or a girl, man or
woman.

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 BASIC GAD CONCEPT
GENDER-BASED BEHAVIOR

- socially constructed according to what they believe to be

differences in male/female behavior;

- transmit such belief to future generations; and

- with culture and society influencing mainstream views in

differentiating men and women.

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 BASIC GAD CONCEPT
Female gender roles are associated Male gender roles are associated
with appropriate concepts of with appropriate concepts of

Feminity Masculinity
and traits such as: and traits such as:
- submissiveness - dominance

- modesty - assertiveness

- nurturance - independence

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 BASIC GAD CONCEPT
GENDER STEREOTYPES

It is the tendency or attitude, to ascribe particular traits,

characteristics and roles distinctly to men and particular traits,
characteristics, roles distinctly to women.

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 BASIC GAD CONCEPT
Men:
Physically stronger, then, they are better engineers, architects,
welder or carpenters. They are the protectors of women.

Women:
Physically weak, then, they need protection from men. They are
better nurses, teachers, secretaries, and retail salespersons. They
need to be protected by men.

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 BASIC GAD CONCEPT
Men:
Bravery, aggressiveness, independence, and the ability to control
emotions are traits of men.
Women:
Timidity, passivity, while emotionally dependent demonstrative,
loving, self sacrificing and being peaceful are traits of women.

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 BASIC GAD CONCEPT
Men:
Work is the center of their lives. Reason is the basis for decision-
making. Decisive.

Women:
Relationship both within and outside the family is the center of their
lives. Intuition is basis of decision-making. Whimsical and fickle
minded

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 BASIC GAD CONCEPT
Men:
More fit to be leaders, head of families, business enterprises, social
and political organizations, states, armies and communities.

Women:
More fit to take secondary roles .

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 BASIC GAD CONCEPT

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PINK OR BLUE?
“The generally accepted rule is
pink for the boys and blue for
the girls.
The reason is that pink, being a
more decided and stronger
color, is more suitable for the
boy, while blue, which is more
delicate and dainty, is prettier
for the girl”.
- Earnshaw’s Infants
Department , 1918
END OF PRESENTATION

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