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National Commission On The Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW)

This document provides an overview of gender and development (GAD) from the perspective of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women. It defines key terms like gender, sex, and development. It explains that gender issues arise from societal biases about appropriate roles and characteristics for women and men, which can constrain their potential. The document advocates for GAD as a development approach that addresses gender inequalities in order to promote more equitable growth and empower both women and men to contribute to development. It argues that focusing on promoting women's empowerment and gender equality is important because women comprise half the population and their contributions are often marginalized or invisible. The document concludes by calling everyone to address gender biases and promote GAD in both

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National Commission On The Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW)

This document provides an overview of gender and development (GAD) from the perspective of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women. It defines key terms like gender, sex, and development. It explains that gender issues arise from societal biases about appropriate roles and characteristics for women and men, which can constrain their potential. The document advocates for GAD as a development approach that addresses gender inequalities in order to promote more equitable growth and empower both women and men to contribute to development. It argues that focusing on promoting women's empowerment and gender equality is important because women comprise half the population and their contributions are often marginalized or invisible. The document concludes by calling everyone to address gender biases and promote GAD in both

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National Commission on the

Role of Filipino Women


(NCRFW)

Gender and
Developmen
t
(made easy)

National Commission on the Role of


Filipino Women

MISSION
Making government work
for womens empowerment
and gender equality

National Commission on the Role of


Filipino Women

Advise the President and the Cabinet on policies

and programs affecting women.


Oversee the implementation of laws including
international treaties and commitments

Gender and Development


(GAD)

What is Gender?

It is concerned with differentiating people


based on perceptions, roles and social
expectations.
It is a cultural, contrived, distinguishing
variable
It is learned or acquired

Gender is very much related to sex and


many people are often confused about the
distinction between sex and gender.

What is Sex?
It is concerned with differentiating
people based on biological
attributes
It is a natural and valid
distinguishing variable
It is universal, fixed

Problems begin when confusion on sex


and gender find its way into decisions
affecting:

resource allocation
assignment of roles and responsibilities
transactional processes
problem analysis
Because of these, women and men are
boxed into situations which constrain their
capacity to do and to be
AND hinder their potential to attain a
full and satisfying life

What is development?
It is about attaining a full and satisfying life
for all
Attaining a full and satisfying life for all is a
shared responsibility
- of everyone regardless of age,sex, religion,
ethnicity or
class
- of the government as duly mandated authority
- of all individuals and entities who benefit from
development or are affected by the lack of it

What are Gender Issues?


These are difficulties that women and
men experience as a result of cultural
biases - emanating from beliefs,
attitudes, values, roles and
characteristics attributed by society to
women and men
These biases define what women and
men should be, how they would act, what
they would do, what they are entitled to

What are Gender


Issues?
They stress the difference, based on
perceptions, not on what is true or real
They shape, often inaccurately, our
understanding of the peoples actual needs
They distort the processes of problem
analysis, which in turn, hinder the
adoption of responsive measures to
improve peoples lives

What are Gender Issues?


They IMPEDE the capabilities of women and
men to
attain their full potentials
To be what they are capable of becoming
To do what they need to do
in order to attain a full and satisfying life.

Feminine
perception

roles

expectations

Weak, emotional,
secondary, cant
think

Masculine
Strong, rational,
primary, cant
feel

No hard work,
no leadership, not
a boss,
no decision-making

Hard work,
leader, boss,
no care-giving

Stay at home, just


obey, dont assert,
dont participate
in deciding

Dont make
women do hard
work, always
be smart, get
the best, dont
cry

Productive-Reproductive Divide

work
politics

Reproductive
child birth/rearing
home management
family care

paid
visible
valued

unpaid
invisible
not valued

Productive

What are Gender Issues?


Gender issues affect everybody,
men or women, rich or poor,
young or old, etc. in all spheres
of life.

THEY AFFECT MEN

Gender Biases Against


Men

Inherently aggressive and violent

Dont feel pain or incapable of


experiencing human emotions

Inherently expressive in their


sexuality

Dont need closeness, reassurance,


and attention

PERSONAL

WOMENS GENDER ISSUES

Gender issues are deterrents


to development. Thus, it is
important to address them in
development planning.

WHAT IS GAD, then?


GAD is about recognizing
that gender biases impede
development
GAD is a development
perspective that recognizes
the different roles,
interests and needs of
women and men

AND DELIBERATELY ADDRESSES THEM

In the processes of developing,


budgeting, implementing,
monitoring and evaluating
programs, projects and services,
particularly
government agencies.

GAD is about being


faithful to the principle
that...

Fairness and equity


demands that everyone in
society, whether male or
female, has the right to
the same opportunities to
achieve a full and
satisfying life.

WHY GAD?
Because, GAD -- Sharpens the focus of development on

people

Enhances the capacities of women and

men to contribute to the attainment of


development goals

Reduces social inequities that stem from

unequal gender relations

WHY GAD ?
More importantly,
a gender-responsive development is
crucial in attaining GROWTH with
EQUITY
GROWTH, because GAD empowers women
to be effective as half of the national
producers of goods and services
EQUITY, because it aims to provide more to
those who have less according to needs

But why focus more


on women?

Because
Eliminating gender

inequalities leads to
significant productivity
gains, provides large
societal benefits and
enhances poverty reduction
-World Bank
scheme

First, women are half of the


countrys population. As such,
they
are half of the producers
of
economic goods and
services

but...

they are in the invisible and


marginalized sector or the so-called
non-money economy

- bearing and raising children

- domestic and unpaid economic labo


- subsistence agriculture

Second, they are already in the


money economy
informal
sector
wage employment
trading

but, in being so, they


experience
a lot of hardships
multiple roles
violence and sexual harassment
lack of protection
exploitation
poor skills
discrimination

Third, women have unique stakes,


roles and insights to share in order to
attain
development objectives, such as in:

sustaining the environment


managing population growth
imparting values that have
profound impacts on human
progress and economic
development

And most importantly, because


resources and opportunities for
attaining a full and satisfying life are
NOT ALWAYS THE SAME for women
and men. These are determined by:
SEX - child bearing
GENDER - beliefs about what women
CANT DO OR SHOULD DO

WHY US ?

Everyone who believes in the vision

attaining a full and satisfying life for


has an obligation to help pursue GAD

We are custodians of peoples trust

resources. We have the power,


knowledge, skills and resources to m
development work for everybody

We are mandated by

international
treaties/commitments, laws
and policies

Gender issues affect all of us.

instead of solving them, we all


contribute to their perpetuation

Where do we go from
here ?
A. Personal
check personal gender biases
look at everyone and deal with
them
as human,
human not as women/men,
male/
female, girls/boys
critique books of young children
examine assignment of roles at
home
and correct gendered patterns

Where do we go from
here ?
B. Professional
desegregate data by sex
attain balance in various
positions
(esp. top and decision-making
positions)
stop gender discrimination in
recruitment, hiring, training,
promotion

Where do we go from
here ?
B. Professional

make spaces for disadvantaged men


and women

treat each one as equals; demolish


hierarchical social transactions
adopt a GAD plan of action (review
content of training programs; develop
tools, conduct GRP, participate
in inter-agency activities on
GAD, etc.)

May the
Filipino
Women and
the future
generations
reap our
efforts for
gender

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