GE 11 GENDER AND SOCIETY SECTION H MWF 8:00-9:00 AM

Jaelai Ann Benitez BSOA III

Practice tasks/Assessment:

Answer the following:

1. What is your own perception of Gender? (30 pts)

 Gender is the characteristics of a person as being a man or a woman or boy or girls that are
socially contracted by their norms and behavior and roles by their gender .

2. Why is Gender and Society essential in understanding the people and the world we live in? (30 pts)

 Gender is an important consideration in development. It is a way of looking at how social norms

and power structures impact on the lives and opportunities available to different groups of men
and women.Understanding these gender relations and the power dynamics behind them is a
prerequisite for understanding individuals’ access to and distribution of resources, the ability to
make decisions and the way women and men, boys and girls are affected by political processes
and social development.

3. Why do prejudices to other people who choose their gender preference different from that we are
accustomed to exist? (40 pts.)

 Discrimination strikes at the very heart of being human. It is harming someone’s rights simply
because of who they are or what they believe. Discrimination is harmful and perpetuates
inequality.We all have the right to be treated equally, regardless of our race, ethnicity,
nationality, class, caste, religion, belief, sex, gender, language, sexual orientation, gender
identity, sex characteristics, age, health or other status. Yet all too often we hear heartbreaking
stories of people who suffer cruelty simply for belonging to a “different” group from those in
positions of privilege or power.

Learning Activities/ Exercises:

Identify what laws/bill may have been violated in the given situations:

1. SOGIE BILL Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Anti-Discrimination Bill
could have protected members of the LGBTQIA+ Community if approved nto law.
2. RA 7877 or the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995 In this law, Sexual Harassment may be
committed in work, education or training. Sexual harassment is committed by an employer,
employee, manager, supervisor, agent of the employer, teacher, instructor, professor, coach,
trainor,
3. RA 9710 or the Magna Carta of Women This law has been legislated in order to ensure that
women are protected from discrimination. The State has been given the duty to recognize,
respect, protect fulfill and promote all human rights, and fundamental freedoms of women,
especially those who are marginalized.
4. RA 9262 AN ACT DEFINING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN, PROVIDING
FOR PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR VICTIMS, PRESCRIBING PENALTIES THEREFORE, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES Violence against women and their children" refers to any act or a series of
acts committed by any person against a woman who is his wife, former wife, or Against a
woman with whom the person has or had a sexual or dating relationship, or with whom he has a
common child, or against her child whether legitimate or illegitimate, within or without the
family abode, which result in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or
suffering, or economic abuse including threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion,
harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty. It includes, but is not limited to, the following
acts:A. "Physical Violence" refers to acts that include bodily or physical harm;
5. RA 8353 of the Anti-Rape Law of 1997 This law has expanded the definition of the crime of rape
thereby amending the Revised Penal Code ) By any person who, under any of the circumstances
mentioned in paragraph 1 hereof, shall commit an act of sexual assault by inserting his penis
into another person's mouth or anal orifice, or any instrument or object, into the genital or anal
orifice of another person.

Practice tasks/Assessment

1. Why are laws important? Why is there a need to know the laws? 25 points
  Law is a system of rules created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to
regulate behavior,with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate.It has been
variously described as a science and the art of justice. Law is very important because law is
like rules that we should follow to limit us on the things that we do in our life its part our
dicicion. We need to follow for for peace and to discipline us with our mistakes.

2. What are the pros and cons of the SOGIE BILL? Are you in favor of it becoming a law? Why or why
not? 25 points

 SOGIE bill pros and cons, the most obvious advantage is also the main purpose of the bill – to
protect Filipinos of the LGBTQ in the face of discrimination.i am in favor with this because we
have all the Rights as a human and being part of lgbtq is not an exception because we are all
equal and This justifies the SOGIE bill which seeks to impose fines and punishments on those
showing discrimination based on a person’s gender identities and sexual orientation.

3. Is there a need for more laws for gender equality? Why or why not? 25 points

 Yes because the more we get the law about discrimination. To protect every persons rights
and equal treatment for all of specially the LGBT community who is prone to discriminations
and tries to correct the reactions of people to others based on their sexual orientation.

4. How can these Gender-based laws affect and help us, the people in the society, from
discrimination? Explain.

 The law is made to for all of us to follow and no one is exempted. The gwnder based laws
helps us women and lgbtq community to face the world without a fear of any discriminations
because their are laws that is made to protect us form gender biased discriminations in the
eyes of judegemental people all around.