FEMINIST

LEARNING COMPETENCY

 Understand the concept of Feminism

 Determine the relationship between
gender ideology and gender
inequality.
 Identify the differences among the
types of feminism.
 Feministsare people who try
to acknowledge social
inequality based on gender
and stop it from continuing.
Feminists point out that in
most cultures throughout
history men have received
more opportunities than
women.
 GENDER IDEOLOGY
 It is concerned with normative
beliefs about the proper roles for
and fundamental natures of
women and men in human
societies. The distinction
between sex and gender is
central to the concept of gender
ideology.
 GENDER INEQUALITY
 refersto unequal treatment or
perceptions of individuals
based on their gender. Gender
inequality stems from
distinctions, whether
empirically grounded or
socially constructed.
FEMINIST
THEORY
 Emphasizes gender as a key basis of
structured inequality

 Challenges conventional
distractions between public and
private

 Problematizes the fundamentally

political relationship between
gender and power.
THEORY OF
FEMINISM
 Feminismis a philosophical
argument or a discourse that
focuses on the role of
women in the society;

 Feminism emphasizes on the

participation and rights of
women on politics;
 Feminism argues the
equality in power with
men;

 Feminism argues that

women also has the same
abilities of with men.
TYP E S O F
FE M IN I SM
 It is a movement
that believes
sexism is so
deeply rooted in
R A D I CA L society that the
only cure is to
F E M IN I SM eliminate the
concept of
gender
completely.
 It is a movement that
calls for an end to
capitalism through a
socialist reformation of
our economy. Basically,

S OC I A L I S T socialist feminism argues

that capitalism

FEM I N IS M strengthens and supports

the sexist status quo
because men
are the ones who
currently have power
and
money.
 A movement that
points out how
modern society is
hurt by encouraging
CU LT U R A L masculine
behaviour, but
F E M I N IS M society would
benefit by
encouraging
feminine behaviour
instead.
 A movement
that believes
all individual’s
L I B E R A L should be free
to explore
FE M I N I S M opportunities
and rights.
 Liberal
feminists argue
that society
holds the false
L I B E R A L belief that
women are, by
FE M I N I S M nature, less
intellectually
and physically
capable than
men.