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    This document discusses gender discrimination and the differences between gender and sex. It defines gender as a social construct that can vary by culture and time, involving learned behaviors and qualities expected of each sex. In contrast, sex is biological and fixed. The document goes on to ask about experiences of discrimination and when it begins, noting it can start within the family through unequal access to education, nutrition, healthcare and mobility. Finally, it links to a video about how gendered behavior impacts lives and discusses the cycle of violence against women.

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    This document discusses gender discrimination and the differences between gender and sex. It defines gender as a social construct that can vary by culture and time, involving learned behaviors and qualities expected of each sex. In contrast, sex is biological and fixed. The document goes on to ask about experiences of discrimination and when it begins, noting it can start within the family through unequal access to education, nutrition, healthcare and mobility. Finally, it links to a video about how gendered behavior impacts lives and discusses the cycle of violence against women.

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    Gendering Process - Gender Discrimination

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    Payal Saha
    This document discusses gender discrimination and the differences between gender and sex. It defines gender as a social construct that can vary by culture and time, involving learned behaviors and qualities expected of each sex. In contrast, sex is biological and fixed. The document goes on to ask about experiences of discrimination and when it begins, noting it can start within the family through unequal access to education, nutrition, healthcare and mobility. Finally, it links to a video about how gendered behavior impacts lives and discusses the cycle of violence against women.

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    Gendering Process-

    Gender Discrimination
    What do YOU understand by
    the term GENDER?
    What is Gender?

    PART of BIOLOGY & PART of SOCIAL


    CONSTRUCT

    It is based on Social Behaviour


    Difference Between Gender and Sex
    Gender Sex

    • Socio-cultural (society made)


    • Natural- biologically constructed
    • Variable and changes with time, place
    and culture • Constant everywhere
    • Attributes can be changed • Cannot be changed except
    • An aspect of social in-equality and
    surgery
    unequal power
    • Learned behaviour
    • An aspect of physical inequality
    • A set of qualities and behaviors • Innate and not learned
    expected from a male & female by the • Categorizes someone as Male &
    society
    Female
    EXPERIENCES and FORMS of
    DISCRIMINATION
    in one’s life?
    Where and when does Discrimination begin?

    • Family (Education/Nutrition/Healthcare/Mobility)
    • The Cycle of Violence against Women (VAW)
    How Gendered behaviour impacts our lives?

    A short film on Masculinity- Kamala Bhasin in Satyamev Jayate

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOLYIzJnKT4

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