METRO MANILA COLLEGE

U-SITE BRGY. KALIGAYAHAN NOVALICHES QUEZON CITY

GRADUATE STUDIES DEPARTMENT

Program: Doctor of Philosophy in Development Education

Subject: Career Guidance
Professor: Dr. Remedios Basco
Topic: Gender and Development Mainstreaming
Discussant: Mr. Dan Lhery S. Gregorious
• MAIN PREMISES turn, their potentials to attain a full and
satisfying life.
• 1. That, this is not a WAR OF THE SEXES;
INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIALIZATION
• 2. That, we are not ANTI-MALE;
• A. FAMILY/PARENTS
• 3. That, both WOMEN and MEN are
victims, although WOMEN are - Boys should be aggressive, go out; trained to
usually/oftentimes the victims than be decision- to go to school since they will be
MEN; future breadwinners

• 4. That, both MEN and WOMEN have a IMPLICATIONS

stake in the struggle from Gender
While boys should have the privilege makers
Equality.
and leaders.
Any Discussion On GAD
• Girls are trained in house work. When there
Starts with The Difference Between SEX are limited stay at home
and GENDER
B. FAMILY/HUSBAND AND WIFE
• SEX Is a natural distinguishing variables
- Husband who consults his wife for decision
based on biological characteristics of
who goes home early; go out on “nights out” w/
being a woman or man. It refers to
physical attributes pertaining to a friends; no vices
person’s body contours, chromosomes
and reproductive organs. IMPLICATIONS

• GENDER - Refers to the socially
differentiated roles, characteristics and
expectations attributed by culture to
women and men. It is set of
characteristics that identifies the social
behavior of women and men and the
relationships between them.
• Gender roles, expectations and
perceptions both women and men into
situations that constrain their capacity
to do and capacity to be, hindering, in
“Under de saya”; husband Ridiculed by pals and
relative, men’s self esteem
C. SCHOOL
Courses for boys:
Engineering; Medicine Architecture
Courses for girls:
Nursing, Social Work; Secretarial; Education.
IMPLICATIONS
No opportunity to choose but an imposition.
On out-of-wedlock Pregnancy
A girl who gets pregnant while studying, gets
kicked out, but a boy who gets a girl pregnant
does not receive any sanction
D. CHURCH
Wedding rites
IMPLICATIONS
Misinterpretation of rite: WIFE, submit to your
husband MAN, love your wife (forgets
the line. As you love GOD) > used by some to
justify why women should stay with a batterer.
E. GOVERNMENT
- Men in general get higher pay at work ship
IMPLICATIONS
Less opportunities for women to take leader
positions
MANIFESTATIONS OF GENDER BIAS
ECONOMIC MARGINALIZATION
- Under or non- violation/recognition of
women’s work
- Unequal pay for work of equal value
- Last to be hired, first to be fired
- Limited opportunities
- Exacting sex favors
POLITICAL SUBORDINATION
Position - Women always attend PTA
meetings, but when a man attends one, he even
gets elected as president.
Status - Women have no identity, when they
get married, they usually carry the names of
their husbands.
Decision Making - Women cannot make
decisions by themselves. They still have to
consult their husbands.
Process of Socialization- Women are accepted
as second class citizen next to men. Even in
dancing it is the man who directs the woman.
MULTIPLE BURDEN
Parenting or child rearing
Housework
Women work outside their homes but
they are still expected to perform domestic
responsibilities and take care of the children.
GENDER STEREOTYPING
Child Rearing - Expected To Take Care Of The
Children
Religion - Does not allow women to be
free with what they wear, or
are merely subordinates
Occupation - Nurses, teachers, Maids, Social
Workers
Education - “Pambahay Lang, Hindi Na Pag
– Aaralin Sa
High School o College”
Language - Language used in our culture is
a man thing- humanity,
manhole, policeman, postman,
utility man, chairman.
Behavior - Women Are Weak
Media - Women are often portrayed as
virgin or “vamp” and as sex
object.
VIOLATION AGAINST WOMEN
Verbal, psychological and physical abuse
forms of violence: jokes, wolf whistles,peeping,”
tsansing”, making sexual passes, sexual
harassment, domestic rape, prostitution.
PERSONAL
Low Self – Esteem
No Control Over One’s Body
Gender-fair language is needed when language
is sexist, devalues members of one sex, fosters
gender inequality and discriminates women by
rendering them invisible, at the same time,
perpetuates notion of male supremacy.
“The way we speak and the way we write
affects the way we think.”