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GENDER ROLES
Reproductive role
Childbearing/rearing
responsibilities,
and
domestic tasks done by
women,
required
to
guarantee the maintenance
and reproduction of the
labor force. It includes not
only biological reproduction
but also the care and
maintenance of the work
force (male partner and
working children) and the
future work force (infants
and school-going children).
Productive role
Communitymanaging roles
Community
Politics role
Activities
undertaken
primarily by women at the
community level, as an
extension
of
their
reproductive role, to ensure
the
provision
and
maintenance
of
scarce
resources
of
collective
consumption, such as water,
health care and education.
This is voluntary unpaid
work, undertaken in 'free'
time.
Activities
undertaken
primarily by men at the
community level, organising
at the formal political level,
often within the framework
of national politics. This is
usually paid work, either
directly or indirectly, through
status or power. 3
3
4
Ibid.
SULTANA, A. Patriarchy and Women's
Subordination: A theoretical Analysis.
Retrieved
from
http://www.bdresearch.org/home/attachm
ents/article/nArt/A5_12929-47213-1-PB.pdf
on 15 December 2016
United Nations Human Rights website:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/
WRGS/Pages/GenderStereotypes.aspx.
Retrieved on 15 December 2016.
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GENDER MAINSTREAMING
Gender mainstreaming was established as a
major global strategy for the promotion of
gender equality in the Beijing Platform for Action
from the Fourth United Nations World Conference
on Women in Beijing in 1995.9
Gender Mainstreaming is an organizational
strategy to bring a gender perspective to all
aspects of an institutions policy and activities,
through
building
gender
capacity
and
accountability.
The 1970s strategies of integrating women into
development by establishing separate womens
units or programs within state and development
institutions had made slow progress by the mid1980s.
In light of this, the need was identified for
broader institutional change if pervasive male
advantage was to be challenged. Adding womenspecific activities at the margin was no longer
seen as sufficient. Most major development
organizations and many governments have now
embraced gender mainstreaming as a strategy
for moving towards gender equality.
With a mainstreaming strategy, gender concerns
are seen as important to all aspects of
development; for all sectors and areas of activity,
and a fundamental part of the planning process.
Responsibility for the implementation of gender
policy is diffused across the organizational
structure, rather than concentrated in a small
central unit. 10
10