Gender equality
The gender
perspective is a social, historical and cultural construction. It is the result
of a long history of searches, investigations, actions and participation of
thousands of women and men in the world, interested in the transformation of
society, especially concerned about the subordination and oppression to which
women have been subjected by centuries, eager to build equitable relationships
between men and women, to modify the roles assigned historically and culturally
to the genders
First it was the enlightened feminism of the eighteenth century that made reflections on the situation of women and the re-coincidence of their rights; later, others followed with suffragism and its demand for the formal inclusion of women in popularly elected systems and with it, their vindication of citizenship status. Later, since the sixties (20th century) a new wave of reflection, action and denunciation of the situation of women began.
Gender relation ther, simultaneouslt suppress natural similarities beteen the sexes and exacerbate the differences , ensuring that the male and female of the human species are channelled in to mutually exclusive categories of women and men,based on mutually exclusive traits of masculinity and femininity . however , the translation of biological categories in to ocial one is not a simple thing . while it is generally the case that male and female tends to cerrelate empirically with men and women, the it between male/female and masculinity/femininity is more difiuse .
the term gender relation refers to the relation of power between women and men which are revealed in a range of practices , ideas, and representations, including the division of labour, roles, and resources between men and women, nd the ascribing to them of different abilities, attitudes, desires, personality traits, behavioural patterns, and so on,
Gender relations are both constituted by and help constitute these practices and ideologies in interaction with other structures of social hierarchy such as class, caste, and rce. they may be seen as largely socially constructed ( rather than biologically determined) and as variable overtheme and place .
the consequent treatment of men and women as isolated categories had helped to render invisible men's role in the continuing subordination of women in the development process.
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