Gender Equality, Womens Empowerment & Gender Equity

CARE GED 101

Overview
Gender: what and why? CAREs Womens Empowerment (WE) framework & key concepts Men and Boys

Gender is a social construct

Courtesy of: National Geographic Channel

Gender is a social construct

Courtesy Sonke Gender Justice Network

WHY focus on gender?

We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security. CAREs core values of Respect, Integrity, Commitment and Excellence promotes diversity and gender equity, choice and dignity for all. We believe we can more effective in our programs.

CAREs efforts to advance Gender Equality and Womens Empowerment

4 year investment in a Strategic Impact Inquiry Development of a womens empowerment framework Institutional commitment: GED trainings CI Gender Policy

WOMENS EMPOWERMENT is the sum total of changes needed for a woman to realize her full human rights the interplay of changes in:

AGENCY STRUCTURE RELATIONS

Her own aspirations and capabilities The environment that surrounds and conditions her choices The power relations through which she negotiates her path

CAREs Womens Empowerment Framework

Agency

Relations

Structure

Girls Leadership
Voice/
assertion

Vision

Decisionmaking/Action

Organization

Selfconfidence

Gender Equality

Long-term goal Absence of discrimination based on sex Equality between men and women exists when both sexes are able to share equally in the distribution of power and influence

 Gender equity is the process of being fair to women and men. To ensure fairness, strategies and measures must often be available to compensate for womens historical and social disadvantages that prevent women and men from otherwise operating on a level playing field. Equity leads to equality.

GENDER EQUITY

Gender equity leads to gender equality

GENDER EQUALITY
GENDER EQUITY
Engaging men and boys equal treatment before the law equal access to social provisions Equal access to education Quota for female representatives

Womens empowerment & girls leadership is a critical aspect of promoting gender equality

WHAT DO MEN AND BOYS HAVE TO DO WITH IT?

Important part of the equation

A domain in the WE framework is RELATIONS

Programming in Action: Burundi

QUESTIONS?

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