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Conceptualizing Gender and Its Relevance

Gender refers to the cultural and social expectations of masculinity and femininity assigned to different sexes. It influences traits, characteristics, roles, and power dynamics between genders in a culture. Gender is expressed through dimensions like clothing, education, career choices, physical spaces, and discipline. However, gender varies across cultures, societies, religions, and historical periods. Studying gender issues helps identify and address gender imbalances, inequalities, and how they impact development issues. It can also reveal how closing gender gaps could boost economies, as reports have shown greater women's participation and equality of opportunity for women could significantly increase GDP.

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Conceptualizing Gender and Its Relevance

Gender refers to the cultural and social expectations of masculinity and femininity assigned to different sexes. It influences traits, characteristics, roles, and power dynamics between genders in a culture. Gender is expressed through dimensions like clothing, education, career choices, physical spaces, and discipline. However, gender varies across cultures, societies, religions, and historical periods. Studying gender issues helps identify and address gender imbalances, inequalities, and how they impact development issues. It can also reveal how closing gender gaps could boost economies, as reports have shown greater women's participation and equality of opportunity for women could significantly increase GDP.

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Conceptualizing Gender and Its Relevance


What is Gender?
• It is the cultural and socially conceived ideas or perception of
masculinity and femininity that are designated to differentiate between
sexes.
• It is those traits and characteristics that a person is expected to possess
by virtue of being male or female
• It is also the roles that a person is expected to perform and conform to
• Gender is about power and how it is distributed and allocated between
the gender
• Gender indicate and seeks to correct imbalance and inaccuracies about
gender roles, gender relation and expression
What is Gender?
• Gender’ is the term widely used to refer to those ways in which a
culture shape and reshape biological difference. The biological sexes
are redefined, represented, valued, and channeled into different roles
in various culturally dependent ways.
• when we talk gender we are concern about power hierarchy,
privilege distribution of power and resources, dynamic of social
relation
Dimensions of Gender
• Clothing is gendered
• Education is gendered
• Choice of career is gendered
• Physical space is gendered
• Discipline is gendered
Gender across culture
• The trait associated with male and female varies across culture,
societies, religion as well as different period of history
The Problem with Gender
• The problem of gender as it is today is as follow;
• It limit the possibility that a person can attain.
• Cage person from become the truest, best and highest expression of
themselves
• It leads to grave injustice
Instruction: Listen to Chimanmanda Adichie’s Ted talk, we should all be
feminist
Gender Roles
Cross Dresser
Controversy around Gender Questions
Gender roles continued
Can a woman be a president?
Importance of Studying Gender Issues
• It helps in recognition of gender issues as they manifest in society
• Identify how to address gender imbalance
• Indicate how it contributes to development and underdevelopment. A
World Bank report and Mckinsey Global Gap report emphasize this.
• Equip to address and ameliorate gender inequality

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Importance of Studying Gender Issues
 A World Bank (2012) report revealed that if women are given equal
opportunity as men in employment, it would add 13.9 billion naira to Nigeria
annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
 Also, the 2015 McKinsey Global Institute report showed that closing the
gender gap and encouraging the participation of women in public, private, and
social sectors could add $12 trillion to the global GDP by 2025

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Notes
• Household work not calculated as work and not included in the GDP
of the country
• all female flight crew

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