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GENDER EQUALITY

Adelle Prescilla G. Diez * MBA * GGCSR


Gender Equality
 Also: gender equity, gender egalitarianism, or sexual
equality
 The goal of the equality of the genders or the sexes, stemming
from a belief in the injustice of myriad forms of gender
inequality.
 UNICEF: Levelling the playing field for girls and women by
ensuring that all children have equal opportunity to develop
their talents.
Gender Inequality
 Allowing people different opportunities due to
perceived differences based solely on issues of
gender.
 Prejudicial treatment of an individual or group due
to gender.
 Generally discussed as pertaining to women, but
anyone can experience gender-based inequality or
discrimination.
Framework
 Equality between women and men (gender equality):
 The equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities of women and men and girls
and boys.
 Equality does not mean that women and men will become the same but that
women’s and men’s rights, responsibilities and opportunities will not depend on
whether they are born male or female.
 Gender equality implies that the interests, needs and priorities of both women
and men are taken into consideration, recognizing the diversity of different
groups of women and men.
 Gender equality is not a women’s issue, but should concern and fully engage
men as well as women.
 Equality between women and men is seen both as a human rights issue and as a
precondition for, and indicator of, sustainable people-centered development.
General Issues

Complementarianism

Sex and gender


Egalitarianism
distinction
GENERA
L ISSUES

Right to equal Gender


protection mainstreaming
General Issues
 Egalitarianism (derived from the French word
égal, meaning "equal"), is a trend of thought that
favors equality of some sort.
 People should be treated as equals on certain
dimensions such as religiously, politically,
economically, socially, or culturally.
General Issues
 Complementarianism is a theological view held
by many in Christianity and other world religions
that men and women have different but
complementary biblically-prescribed roles and
responsibilities in marriage, family life, religious
leadership, and elsewhere.
General Issues
 Gender mainstreaming is the public policy
concept of assessing the different implications for
women and men of any planned policy action,
including legislation and programmes, in all areas
and levels.
General Issues
 The distinction between sex and gender is a
concept in feminist theory, political feminism, and
sociology which distinguishes sex, a natural or
biological feature, from gender, the cultural or
learned significance of sex.
General Issues
 The Right to Equal Protection is a concept that
was introduced to into the Constitution of the
United States during the American Civil War. It is
intended to protect the rights provided by the
United States Constitution for all individuals
regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, etc.
‘Social Gendering’: Technology and
Skills
Evaluate these propositions
 Technology with masculinity is a ‘medium of power’

 Men populate technological settings, excluding women from

various jobs
 Only institutional positive discrimination will change this

exclusion.
 When women enter ‘male’ occupations, the work is down-

graded.
 When women enter historically ‘male’ professions, they still

do not rise to the top.


 The gendering of attitudes to technology is contingent and

changing.
Discrimination and Sex-Typing Work

Women’s Work Labels Womens’ orientation to work


 service to needs  supplement financial needs
 softness and caring  primary earner - single parent
 style & glamour  diversion from home
 semi-skilled & repetitive  self fulfilment in conflict with duty
 nimble fingered  balancing home over work
 limited by motherhood and  a life compromise over opportunity
parenting duties?  be more of a man than a man
 other?  other?
‘Gendering’ Careers
Mechanisms and Processes
 unequal pay for work of equal value

 differential access to progression

 male networking & discounting of women

 male face before women

 women - less reliable & more cost

 poor state & employer provision for child care

 male, competitive, closet management

 office politics & male bargaining: the selfish vs. the self-less

 projecting the competitive self

 job segregations

Self mediation of careers


 satisfactions without progression in formal hierarchies.
HRM Rhetoric
Human Resources are the most important
organizational asset as they can provide
organisations with competitive advantage (Dickens,
1999).
But…
 race
 sex
 disability ...discrimination still
exists
 age
Steps to Gender Equality

Gender equality

ENGAGEMENT MECHANISMS

Gender analysis

EQUITY MECHANISMS

Commitment to act

Gender analysis

Gender inequity/inequality
THANK YOU! 

Adelle Prescilla G. Diez * MBA * GGCSR

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