GENDER INTERESTS AND NEEDS
Summary
TLDRIn this educational video, Megan Teacher Pulling explores the concept of gender needs, drawing on Caroline Moser's work. She explains practical and strategic gender needs, emphasizing how understanding these can inform gender policies and planning. Practical needs relate to immediate concerns like living conditions, while strategic needs address long-term issues like legal rights and gender equality. The video provides a framework for analyzing women's status in society and suggests ways to empower women through gender-sensitive policies.
Takeaways
- 📚 The concept of gender needs is based on the work of Caroline Moser, which is crucial for understanding the position of women in society.
- 🔍 Understanding gender needs helps in analyzing women's position and gathering information about community attitudes, capacities, and practices related to gender.
- 🌟 Gender interests are developed due to women's social positioning and are the core concerns, while gender needs are the means to achieve these interests.
- 🏡 Practical gender needs are immediate, context-specific needs that arise from gender divisions of labor and women's subordinate position in society.
- 💼 In productive roles, practical gender needs include economic contributions, employment opportunities, wages, and income, which are essential for women's well-being.
- 🌱 The global economic crisis has increased the demand for women's productive roles, highlighting the need for meaningful employment and the challenges it presents.
- 👶 Practical gender needs in reproductive roles encompass favorable living conditions, healthcare, safe drinking water, nutrition, and child care facilities.
- 🌐 In community roles, practical gender needs involve protecting the environment and enhancing the capacity of land and soil, which are crucial for women's welfare.
- 💪 Strategic gender needs are long-term and less visible, focusing on addressing structural inequalities and discrimination women face due to their subordinate position.
- 🌟 Strategic gender needs in productive roles include training for women in non-traditional sectors, land rights, and decision-making choices to empower women economically.
- 🏛️ Addressing strategic gender needs in community roles involves providing space for collective organization, leadership roles, and managing community resources for women's empowerment.
Q & A
What is the basis of the concept of gender needs discussed in the video?
-The concept of gender needs is based on the work of Caroline Moser, which helps to analyze the position of women in society or institutions.
How does understanding gender needs help in community analysis?
-Understanding gender needs enables efficient and effective gathering of information about community attitudes, capacities, and practices related to different gender needs.
What are the two types of gender needs identified in the video?
-The two types of gender needs identified are practical gender needs and strategic gender needs.
What are practical gender needs and how do they relate to women's roles in society?
-Practical gender needs are the needs women identify in their socially accepted roles, arising from gender divisions of labor and women's subordinate position in society.
How does the global economic crisis impact practical gender needs related to productive roles?
-The global economic crisis increases the demand for women's productive roles, making it challenging to gain meaningful employment and leading to vulnerability if these needs are not met.
What are some examples of practical gender needs in reproductive roles?
-Practical gender needs in reproductive roles include favorable living conditions, health care, safe drinking water, nutritional supplements, child care facilities, sanitation, nutrition, and transport.
What are strategic gender needs and why are they important?
-Strategic gender needs are the needs identified due to women's subordinate position in society and are related to gender division of labor, power, and control. They are important for achieving greater equality and changing existing roles.
How do strategic gender needs in productive roles help women?
-Strategic gender needs in productive roles involve providing training for women in non-traditional entrepreneurship, land rights in women's names, and decision-making choices to increase agricultural production and evade poverty.
What are the strategic gender needs in community roles for women?
-Strategic gender needs in community roles include space for collective organization, freedom of expression, skill upgradation, leadership roles in managing community resources, and political participation.
How can the understanding of practical and strategic gender needs be used to improve women's status?
-Understanding practical and strategic gender needs allows for gender analysis to examine the status of women, leading to policies and planning that favor the quality of women's lives and challenge structural inequalities.
Outlines
👤 Understanding Gender Needs and Interests
This paragraph introduces the concept of gender needs based on the work of Caroline Moser. It emphasizes the importance of understanding gender needs to analyze women's positions in society or institutions. The lesson aims to help gather information about community attitudes, capacities, and practices related to gender needs. Gender interests are explained as the core concerns developed due to women's social positioning, while gender needs are the means to achieve the expected changes in empowerment. Practical and strategic gender needs are introduced, with practical needs being immediate and context-specific, often arising from gender divisions of labor and women's subordinate position in society. Examples include needs in productive roles like employment opportunities and wages, reproductive roles like health care and child care facilities, and community roles like environmental protection and resource management.
🌟 Addressing Practical and Strategic Gender Needs
Paragraph 2 delves deeper into practical and strategic gender needs. Practical gender needs are those identified within women's socially accepted roles, such as providing for basic living conditions like water, health care, and employment. The paragraph highlights the challenges women face in meeting these needs, such as the global economic crisis and the lack of opportunities in non-traditional occupations. Strategic gender needs, on the other hand, are related to women's subordinate position in society and include issues like legal rights, domestic violence, and control over their bodies. Meeting these needs can lead to greater equality and a change in existing roles. The paragraph also discusses the importance of strategic gender needs in productive roles, such as training in non-traditional fields and land ownership, reproductive roles, and community roles, including collective organization and leadership in managing community resources. It concludes by stating that addressing strategic gender needs can lead to long-term empowerment and justice for women in society.
📚 Conclusion and Call to Action
In the final paragraph, the speaker summarizes the importance of understanding both practical and strategic gender needs for conducting a gender analysis. It thanks the audience for listening and encourages them to subscribe to the channel for more related content. The paragraph serves as a conclusion to the video, reinforcing the key points discussed and providing a call to action for viewers to engage further with the topic.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Gender Needs
💡Caroline Moser
💡Practical Gender Needs
💡Strategic Gender Needs
💡Gender Interests
💡Productive Roles
💡Reproductive Roles
💡Community Roles
💡Empowerment
💡Gender Analysis
💡Gender Budgeting
Highlights
The concept of gender needs is based on the work of Caroline Moser.
Understanding gender needs helps analyze the position of women in society.
Gender interests are developed by virtue of women's social positioning.
Gender needs are classified as practical or strategic.
Practical gender needs arise from socially accepted roles and gender divisions of labor.
Strategic gender needs address women's subordinate position and aim for greater equality.
Practical gender needs in productive roles include employment opportunities and income.
The global economic crisis increases the demand for women's productive roles.
Inadequacies in employment lead to poverty and nutritional deficiencies for women.
Practical gender needs in reproductive roles involve living conditions and healthcare.
Women's community roles involve protecting the environment and preserving resources.
Strategic gender needs in productive roles focus on training and decision-making for women.
Access to control over their lives and bodies is a strategic gender need for women.
Strategic gender needs in community roles include collective organization and leadership.
Addressing strategic gender needs can lead to equality in political participation.
Gender budgeting and credit for capital assets are indicators of strategic gender needs.
The lesson provides a framework for understanding practical and strategic gender needs.
Practical gender needs address basic needs, while strategic needs tackle structural inequality.
Transcripts
hey guys welcome back to my channel this
is megan teacher pulling
and today i will be discussing about
gender
interest and needs
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the concept of gender needs is based on
the work of
caroline moser the understanding of the
concept of gender needs
will enable you to analyze the position
of women
in society or institutions
this lesson can help you efficiently and
effectively
gather information about community
attitudes capacities and practices
related to different gender needs
the deeper understanding can enhance to
derive
gender policies and planning favoring
the
quality of women gender interest
the gender interests are those that
women
may develop by virtue of their social
positioning
through gender attributes one has to
understand
the gender interest as the core concern
and the gender needs are the means
the core concern or the expected change
in the position in the process of
empowerment
and the needs are the programs to attain
it
gender needs gender needs can be
classified as either
practical or strategic needs
practical gender needs practical
gender needs are the needs women
identify in their socially
accepted roles in society practical
gender needs
do not challenge although they arise
out of gender divisions of labor and
women's subordinate position
in society practical gender needs are
response to immediate
and perceived necessity identified
within
a specific context they are practical in
nature
and often concerned in adequacies
in living conditions such as water
provision
health care and employment practical
gender needs in productive roles
the productive roles of women demand her
economic contributions to the family
are employment opportunities wages
and income the global economic crisis
puts pressure on women to take up
multiple roles
and the demand for women's productive
role
has increased in developing countries
gaining meaningful employment itself is
a challenge
and inability to meet this need put
women
in more vulnerable position the
inadequacies
in employment lead to poverty and
subsequently to nutritional deficiencies
and anemia
similarly land alienation or promotion
of technology in agricultural production
often neglect the women's role in
agricultural production
due to lack of technical skills and
moreover
due to the division of labor women's
entry
is not easily welcomed in the areas of
non-traditional occupation
practical gender needs in reproductive
roles
women are tied up with their
reproductive
productive and nurturing rules and for
performing this rules they do not have a
conducive
atmosphere the practical gender needs in
reproductive roles
includes a favorable living conditions
the health care safe drinking water
nutritional supplement child care
facilities
sanitation nutrition
transport family planning facilities
and fulfilling of other related needs
practical gender needs in community
roles
a woman in their community management
roles
protects the environment and enhances
the capacity
of land and soil women as mothers
and caretakers protect and preserve the
resources in the environment
the move to alienate by the vested
interest destroys the community
resources
and do not address the practical gender
needs
therefore preserving community resources
like water forest land and other common
resources
enabled to meet the practical gender
needs
of women so welfare skills with
farsightedness
are important indicators
of practical gender needs
good housing safe drinking water
adequate water for domestic and other
immediate consumption maintenance of
hygiene and sanitation regular
employment adequate lighting
wages child care facilities
health care and insurance coverage for
women
availability of nutritional food and
supplement
transportation facilities electricity
fuel for cooking income
and availability of provision
strategic gender needs strategic gender
needs are the needs of women
identify because of their subordinate
position
in society they vary according to
particular context
related to gender division of labor
power and control and may include
issues such as legal rights domestic
violence
equal wages and women's control over
their bodies
meeting strategic gender needs assist
women to achieve greater equality
and change existing roles thereby
challenging women subordinate position
they are more long-term and less visible
than practical gender needs
strategic gender needs in productive
roles
in productive roles the strategic gender
needs
are to provide training for women in
non-traditional
entrepreneurship land in the name of
women
give her the choice of decision making
and
women as agricultural pioneers increase
the agricultural production and evades
poverty and hunger a strategic
gender needs reproductive role as we
understand that the reproductive rule
always
keeps the women more susceptible for
abuses violence against
women mostly takes place in the homes
and therefore
women's access to control over their
lives and bodies
could be the strategic gender needs
though the inequalities have been caused
by the gender discrimination
the attitudinal changes and positive
approach
on gender relations can address the
strategic gender needs of
women strategic gender needs in
community role
the strategic gender needs of women in
community roles
are the space for collective
organization
freedom of expression upgradation of
their skills
taking up leadership roles for managing
community resources
when state policies address strategic
gender needs
in community bestows the women with the
role of
leadership at the community level and
this brings equality
in political participation gender
budgeting credit for capital assets
in the name of women the more the women
are organized the chances are more for
empowerment of women
and justice in the society and in long
term
the equations for women's role in
governance
will also change positively when space
is created for women's
leadership indicators of strategic
gender needs
access to capital investment
land rights ownership of assets
equality in wages political equality
sharing of domestic labor and child care
by men
legislation to challenge the abuse of
women
entry of women in non-traditional
occupational sectors
reproductive rights control over their
bodies
equal status of women constitutional
provision
and gender budgeting this
lesson has given you a broader framework
and deeper understanding on practical
gender needs
and strategic gender needs practical
gender needs
tries to address the basic needs whereas
strategic gender needs strategically
tries to address the structural
and other forms of inequality and
discrimination
existing between men and women
with the help of practical gender needs
and strategic gender needs indicators
you can do gender analysis to examine
the status of women
in particular thank you for listening
for more related videos about this topic
don't forget to subscribe to my channel
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