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The document is a midterm exam for a course on Understanding Gender Equality, consisting of multiple-choice questions, definitions, and an essay section. It emphasizes that gender equality is a human issue affecting everyone, not just women, and highlights the positive impact of gender equality on families and communities. The essay discusses personal experiences and societal benefits of achieving gender equality.

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Midterm -Uge

The document is a midterm exam for a course on Understanding Gender Equality, consisting of multiple-choice questions, definitions, and an essay section. It emphasizes that gender equality is a human issue affecting everyone, not just women, and highlights the positive impact of gender equality on families and communities. The essay discusses personal experiences and societal benefits of achieving gender equality.

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MIDTERM IN UGE

(Understanding Gender Equality)

Name: Score: _________________


Faculty: VONHOEPPER N. FERRER Date: April 26, 2025

I. Choose the letter of the correct answer inside the box.

____J_ 1. An agenda for national action to end discrimination.


___F__ 2. The tendency to give preferential treatment to one gender over another.
___G__ 3. It is a generalized, often inaccurate, and oversimplified belief about characteristic roles
or behaviors of individuals based solely on their assigned gender.
___H__ 4. It can occur in both public and private life.
___D__ 5. One sex is inferior to the other.
___C__ 6. The process that forces women out into the periphery of economic and social life.
__B___ 7. It is determined biologically and assigned from birth.
__A___ 8. An activity primarily undertaken by men at the community level.
__I___ 9. Most comprehensive global policy framework for women’s rights.
___E__ 10. A working mother who takes on the bulk of childcare, housework, and maintains
a career.
II. Define the following in your own words. (3 points each)

1. Gender
2. Sex
3. Marginalization
4. Gender Bias
5. Gender stereotyping
6. Multiple Burden
7. Subordination
8. Gender Identity
9. Gender Role
10. Violence Against Women
Answer:

1. Social roles and behaviors expected of men women or others.


2. A persons biological identity as male or female.
3. Excluding or pushing people to the side of society.
4. Favoring one gender over another unfairly.
5. Believing people should act a certain way based on gender.
6. Doing work, house chores, and childcare all at once
7. Treating one group as less important or lower
8. How a person sees and feels about their gender
9. What society expects someone to do based on gender.
10. Harmful acts done to women because they are women

III. Essay (Pasanaysay). 10 points.


Maaring ito ay ipaliwanag sa wikang Filipino at magbigay ng isang halimbawa.

“ Gender equality is not a woman’s issue, it is a human issue. It affects all.” ​

Gender Equality: A Human Story, Not Just a Woman’s Fight

"Gender equality is not a woman’s issue, it is a human issue. It affects all." When we hear words
like "gender equality," it’s easy to think of them as slogans for protests or debates in faraway
places. But the truth is, gender equality is about all of us. It’s about our homes, our families, our
futures. It’s not just a women’s fight — it’s a human story.

Think about a family where both parents are given equal opportunities. When my cousin Sarah
got her first job as an engineer, her entire family’s life changed. Her income helped pay for her
brother’s education, her mother’s medical bills, and even gave her father the chance to start his
own small business. Sarah’s success didn’t just lift her — it lifted everyone she loved. That’s the
real face of gender equality: not one woman climbing alone, but whole families rising together.

It’s also about breaking the chains we put on men without even realizing it. I have a friend,
Daniel, who grew up believing that "real men don’t cry" and that he had to carry the burden of
providing for everyone. It wasn’t until he became a father himself, and took paternity leave to
care for his newborn daughter, that he realized how damaging that belief had been. Being able
to stay home, bond with his baby, and support his wife equally changed him — made him
happier, more connected, more human. Gender equality freed him too.

And when we look at communities around the world, the places where women and men share
power and opportunity are simply better places to live. They are safer, healthier, and more
peaceful. It’s not a coincidence that the happiest countries in the world — like Finland and
Iceland — are also the ones where gender equality is strongest.

Gender equality isn’t about women versus men. It’s about tearing down walls that separate us,
and building bridges that bring us closer. It’s about giving every person — no matter who they
are — the freedom to dream, to work, to love, and to live without limits.

So when we fight for gender equality, we’re fighting for our brothers and fathers just as much as
our sisters and daughters. We’re fighting for a world where everyone’s humanity is honored,
respected, and celebrated.

Because in the end, equality isn't a woman’s issue. It’s a human one.

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