gender

Since childhood education was always indoctrinated but it was impressive to experience how information could be extracted from individuals and reorganized to have a last longing effect. The session started with the brain storming exercise with each individual contributing about his or her idea of gender and how effects an individual and some of the ideas were:

roles in the society
behavior
norms
Choices, perspectives, conditioning.
career options
opportunities available
how people perceive you
position in the family
asset-liability (status from birth)
freedom,movement,security,obligations
duties
upbringing
violence ,laws are subjective
religion
social economic position
power equations
interdependence
identity
socialization

We came to the conclusion that gender means the state of being male or female .in social context it refers to social differences between man and women .these norms are reinforced through social structure, community and social institutions .The term gender is different from the word sex which refers to biological categories of male or female however gender is fluid rather than fixed. We talked about various gender issues in religions and came to the conclusion that religion has two sides theological and philosophical and most of the religious theology takes it for granted that patriarchy by its virtue of power will appropriate other institutions and systems. Most of the discrimination happens in relation to women .

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