Post on 25-Dec-2015
WORKING WITH GENDER AND DIVERSITY
Prague 21.3.2012
Malin Gustavsson, MA, B.Soc. Sc. Diversity Consultant
malin.gustavsson@ekvalita.fi
The bridge
between theory and practise
between working life and university
and its challenges
EKVALITA AB
• Lecture: What do we have to do due to the law?
• Moderating: What are the differences/similarities
between swedish and finnish gender equality politics?
• Workshop: How to we implement gender
mainstreaming in the higher managemant in a city?
• Material: How do we make parents think about this
issues due to their children and youngsters?
DISCUSS WITH THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU
Do you have a specific question about gender training?
What do you see as the biggest personal challenge for you in this field?
What do you see as the biggest challenge for the work in itself?
What knowledge do we want to give? Can we control the
knowledge?
Which are our methods?
What is the form?
GIVE A KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HOW TO
• SEE
• UNDERSTAND
• LIGHT AN URGE FOR CHANGE
• USE AND CREATE TOOLS FOR CHANGE
OUR WAYS OF WORKING
• Lecture, training and coaching
• Workshops
• Surveys, analyses, assessments
• Production of different texts and
material
CONCEPT
• What is gender equality?
• How can we understand sex and
gender (sukupuoli/kön)?
• What does it mean to work with
gender equality issues?
• The norm critical view
• What is the need of the
organisation/you in this issue?
EQUALITY
Equality is an on going process towards a society where there is no discrimination becuase of sex, age, etnical or national background, nationality, language, religion, belives, opinion, status of health, disability, sexual orientation or any other cause that is connected to a person. Everyone should have the same rights, obligations and possibilities in all areas of life. Power is equal divided between all people.
Gender Equality means to put the focus on sex and gender
WHERE IS THE ”SEX/GENDER” SITUATED?*
1. The sex/gender is situated in the body 2. The sex/gender is situated in the head3. ”We are what we do” (behaviour,
attributes) 4. Your own suggestion
*this just an example of an exercise when there is only one
word for sex and gender
DIFFERENT WAYS OF APPROACHING THE ”SEX”
Physical sexGenitals → intersexual x and y chromosomesLevels of testosterone and estrogen
Mental sex
Our experience of our sex/gender.The absence of experienced sex/gender, a stand between, both, or beyond the traditional gender role → transgender, genderqueer, transsexual, postgender, agender, bigender and so on.
Gender – the social and cultural sexIt describes the characteristics and abilities that our society connects to men and women as opposed to the physical sex.
That we perceive as male/female change over time and space.
When body and clothes "mismatch "→ transvestism
HETERONORMATIVITY
SKIRTS TROUSERS
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Equal possibilities, equal values?
NORMS
Norm/s
Written/spoken or unwritten/unspoken rules about what is "right" or "normal".
Norms are all concepts, ideas and unwritten rules that shape human beings.
Norms have with discrimination and power to do
→ Breaking the norms has consequences
HETERONORMATIVITY
Norms where gender and sexuality is in focus
Norms that exclude and value people differently
Unequlity and gender unequality are maintained and reproduced through heteronormativity. Heteronormativity limit the possibility to be who you want to be, where all are seen as equally valued.
DISCUSSION TOPICS
What can we do in our work in order not to re-produce heteronormativity?
AN NORM CRITICAL VIEW
To put the light on the norms
Questioning different norms that limit and sterotype people due to sex, age, etnic or national origin, nationality, language, religion, convincency, opinion, status of health, disability, sexuality or anything else connected to an individual.