Gender equality

SEXISM / SEXISMO

• Sexism: unfair treatment of people because of their sex; prejudice or discrimination based on sex; behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex.

• Gender inequality refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender.

• There are natural differences between the sexes based on biological and anatomic factors, most notably differing reproductive roles. Biological differences include chromosomes, brain structure, and hormonal differences.

IN THE WORKPLACE / EDUCATION

• Wage discrimination.• Concentration of women in low-paid jobs;• Low participation of women in public and

political life• Insufficient gender equality education and the

maintenance of traditional gender stereotypes and prejudices

• La mujer ha vivido en situación de desigualdad y discriminación a lo largo de la historia.

• Women have in inequality and discrimination throughout history.

• Ejemplos de situaciones de desigualdad, página 65.

Forbidden from driving

• In Saudi Arabia, women aren’t allowed to drive, or even ride bikes, and men aren’t allowed to drive women they’re not closely related to.

Clothing requirements

• Muslim women in Kashmir (India) or in Pakistan must wear burqas, head to toe garments that cover their clothes, or risk being attacked.

Right to divorce• In many countries, while husbands can

divorce their spouses easily (often instantaneously through oral repudiation), wives’ access to divorce is often extremely limited, and they frequently confront near insurmountable legal and financial obstacles.

Access to education

• In many areas of Afghanistan or Pakistan, girls are often taken out of school when they hit puberty. There are also cultural factors related to the ‘correctness’ of sending girls to school.

Right to travel• In Syria, a husband can prevent

his wife from leaving the country.

• In Iraq, Libya, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, married women must have their husband’s written permission to travel abroad. In Saudi Arabia, even inside the country.

Victims of violence• Women’s unequal legal

rights increase their vulnerability to violence. In many countries in the region, no specific laws or provisions exist to penalize domestic violence, even though domestic violence is a widespread problem.

Female infanticide

• China’s one child policy has heightened the disdain for female infants; abortion, neglect, abandonment, and infanticide have been known to occur to female infants.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W4l4zpPQOs

• http://sadieamanda.wordpress.com/

• Are men and women equal?• Lets see some facts:

• Are you familiar with these?• How do you think they are connected?

• Joanne K. Rowling • Author of Harry

Potter books and the first female billionaire novelist

Cristina Fernánez de Kirchner,

president of Argentina

Dilma Rousseff,

president of Brazil

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany

Margaret Chan is the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). 

Sheryl Sandberg: former Google Vice President – Current Chief Operating officer of Facebook.

LA MUJER A LO LARGO DE LA HISTORIA

• En las sociedades antiguas, el papel de la mujer era de subordinación respecto al hombre.

• En el mundo greco-romano, las leyes permitían al marido el divorcio sin motivos.

• Las jóvenes se casaban muy pronto, se dedicaban al cuidado de la casa, apenas tenían acceso a la educación.

WOMEN THROUGHOUT HISTORY /• In ancient societies, the role of women was

usually of subordination to men. • In the Greco-Roman world, the laws allowed

the husband filed for divorce without grounds. • Young women married soon, they were

devoted to the care of the house and they had little access to education.

Avances históricos• Desde la Revolución Francesa, surgió un

movimiento feminista, de lucha por los derechos de las mujeres, que tomará fuerza en el siglo XIX.

• Una de sus principales metas era conseguir el derecho al voto, lo que dio lugar al movimiento sufragista.

• Otro hecho decisivo: la incorporación de la mujer al mundo laboral durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.

HISTORICAL PROGRESSES

• Since the French Revolution, a feminist movement emerged, fighting for the rights of women. This movement (suffragism) who will take power in the nineteenth century.

• One of his main goals was to get the right to vote, which resulted in the suffrage movement.

• Another crucial fact: the incorporation of women into the workforce during World War I and, above all, World War II.

Sufragistas / Suffragists

• Lecturas página 67– Ejercicios en grupos, para tu reflexión y el

investiga

La imagen de la mujer

• Estereotipos: creencias y opiniones preconcebidas sobre la realidad que se generan a través del tiempo.

• Los estereotipos femeninos y masculinos son muy numerosos y atribuyen valores, capacidades y roles distintos a hombres y mujeres. Suelen ser falsos y ofensivos.

• Página 68

Women’s image

• Stereotypes: beliefs and preconceived opinions about reality that are generated over time.

• Male and female stereotypes are very numerous and they attribute values , skills and different roles to men and women. They are usually false and offensive.

La mujer y los medios de comunicación

• La mujer, a pesar de los avances de los últimos años, sigue apareciendo en los medios de comunicación de manera estereotipada, mostrando los roles femeninos exagerados.

• Muchas veces se nos presenta como un objeto sexual.

• Lectura página 69.

Women and the mass media

• Women, despite the progress of recent years, continue to appear in the media in a stereotypal way, showing exaggerated feminine roles.

• Often women are presented as sexual objects.

Ejemplos de estereotipos

• Chistes machistas• Chistes feministas• - ¿Cómo vuelves loco a un hombre en la

cama? Escondiéndole el mando a distancia de la tele.

• - ¿Por qué hizo Dios antes al hombre que a la mujer? Para que al hombre le diese tiempo de hablar un poco.

Examples of stereotypes

• Sexist jokes.

La discriminación de la mujer / Discrimination against women

• La discriminación es el trato desigual que recibe la mujer respecto al hombre.

• Discrimination is the unfair treatment of women relative to men.

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Sin distinción de sexo

• El 8 de marzo es el Día Internacional de la Mujer Trabajadora.

• Pág. 74 y 75.