EDM 225 : Educational Laws and Policies

CRITIQUE PAPER ON GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT

Gender – Responsive Basic Education Policy

(DepEd Order No. 32, s. 2017)

So why GAD? The Philippine is committed under international and

national laws to integrate gender equality into the principles, goals and

processes of Philippine education. The 1987 Philippine Constitution

strongly supports this policy.

According to Philippine Commission on Women (PCW), boys are

underperforming in key education indicators compared to girls and

indigenous peoples (IPs) fall behind enrolment data and experience

discrimination. Still, women and girls continue to be vulnerable to sexual

harassment and violence inside schools. Children become more violent

due to their experiences. Furthermore, gender biases and stereotypes

remain and are still embedded in the curricula, instructional methods,

materials and learning media.

As for me, it must be acknowledged that the importance of men

and women in working together to improve their lives and the lives of
their families are of most value. For a well-balanced and sustainable

social development, men and women must have equal rights,

responsibilities and opportunities.

Man and woman are a peerless pair; being supplementary to one

another; each helps the other, so that without the one, the existence of

the other cannot be conceived and, therefore, it follows that anything

that impairs the status of either of them will involve the equal ruin of

them both. – Mahatma Gandhi

Women, therefore, must have "both the legal right and access to

existing means for the improvement of oneself and of society."

— Snyder and Tadesse (1995, p. 6)

REFERENCES:

http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5203e/x5203e05.htm 

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_Gender- based_division_of_labor 

http://www.emancipatieweb.nl/gm,www.un.org/w omenwatch, 

https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/theoretical-perspectives-gender-and

development