1. A PRESENTATION BY:
AMANINDER SANDHU
(SLDAV AMBALA CITY)

3.  Gender identity is the
personal sense of one’s
own gender .
 Gender identity can
correlate with sex at birth ,
or can differ from it
 Males and females , a
gender binary system and
which includes expectations
of masculinity and
femininity in all aspects of
sex and gender : biological
sex , gender identity , and
gender expression .

4.  Understanding the concept of gender .
 Learning gender role standards and
stereotypes .
 Identifying with parents .
 Forming gender preferences .

5. Biological Factors :
Several prenatal , biological factors ,including genes
and hormones , may effect gender identity .
The biochemical theory of gender identity suggests
that people acquire gender identities through such
factors rather than socialization .
Harmonal influences are also complex ; sex
determining hormones are produced at an early
stage of fetal development

6.  Gender role :
 Gender identify also has a
strong relation with social
and environment factors ;
such factors would mostly
include the attitudes of the
parents raising the child
and their culture.
 Children learn from
observation and will repeat
the things they see .

7.  Career transition is the area where gender identity
work is prevalent , career changed is the moving from a
victim position and adopting temporary position as an
active and heroic career .
 Need of career change can happen when the reason for
not being able to feel authentic at work , due to gender .
 The struggle between conflicting identity , position may
invoke negotiation between an identity position in which
one has been placed .
NATURE Vs NATURE
Social factors which may influence gender identity include
ideas regarding gender roles conveyed by family ,
authority figures, mass media, and other influential
people in child’s life .

8.  IN past , girls
were only
allowed to do
feminine things
like playing with
dolls and boys to
be more
aggressive . But
now time has
changed .

9.  Personality trait – women are expected to be
passive while males , self confident .
 Domestic trait – women child care , male household
repair .
 Occupational trait – women-nurses ,males-doctors
.
 Physical appearance – women – short & graceful
,males – tall , broad shouldered .

11.  With changing tradition the roles of gender
are also changing & seems to be difficult .
 Women become more ambitious and
independent & men are more emotional and
involved in household tasks .
 Most of men consider woman’s career as a
conflicting sources because they think
women will neglect their family, increase in
professional competition &risk of
deterioration of marital relation .

12.  In many societies family system is gender
biased & everyone has their specific roles.
 But in today’s modern life women & men
share their responsibilities & do everything
mutually whether it is household work or
professional.
 All live together , take decisions together
criticizing and encouraging mutually & yet
being independent and responsible .

13.  The modern social structure sees both men
and women as equal partners of the society
with equal rights , status and
responsibilities .
 The aspect of equality will give rise to
certain issues too ,’who is to direct? who is
to directed?’
 If not handled well , the family become like
a vehicle steered to different directions .

14. # Family is not just an institution of many people
living together under one roof ; but the union of
similar minded and mutually loving people
boundwith certain duties & responsibilities.
#the gender role structure was designed to help the
people accept their duties . But today , both parents
are working and earning . Now the role of
homemaker becomes no one’s responsibilities.

15.  The state sets the framework within which couples live in a
legal relationship called marriage , it determines the age of
consent to sexual intercourse, it makes certain kinds of
intercourse criminal act , it forbids or regulates the grounds
on which abortions can be undertaken legally .
 The courts set some rules and regulations which determines
what happens when a marriage breaks up .
 Discrimination and oppression persist ensuring that
appearance , trait ,roles and responsibilities ascribed to
women are consistently undermined and marginalized in
comparision to typically masculine attribute and roles .

16.  Media and gender refers to
the relationship between
media and gender , and how
gender is represented within
media.
 These platforms include but
are not limited to film
,television ,journalism and
video games.
 Initiatives and resources
exist to promote gender
equality and reinforce
women’s empowerment in the
media industry and
representations.

17.  Numbers of women in
media professions, such
as journalism, is
growing ; however, the
media is and has been
statistically dominated
by men , who hold the
vast majority of power
positions
 Studies show that
men are more likely
to be quoted than
women in the media
, and more likely to
cover “serious ”
topics .

18.  Studies have found that although the number of
women working in the media has been
increasing globally , the top positions are still
very male dominated.
 Female journalists are more likely to be
assigned ‘soft’ subjects such as family , lifestyle,
fashion and arts
 The ‘hard’ news, politics and the economy, is
much less likely to be written or covered by
women.

19.  Creating a school that nurtures
academic achievement , provides
physical and emotional safety and
welcomes all students and families
are goals common to all educators.
 One way to do this is to create a
gender expansion environment
where all the students can thrive
and learn to their fullest potential.
 There are to traits or characters
that are exclusively possessed by
boys or girls.

20.  In daily work and life with children , educator and
parents often identify difference between girls and boys
that seems to develop without gender cues or overt
stereotypes.
 Sometimes this may be true . Other times , the coding
for the behavior may have become so culturally
accepted and patterned that we might not be able to
identify it’s social origins.
 By the age of 2-3 , children able to label themselves as
girls and boys.
 By the age of 3-4 they can identify the typical
occupation of men and women.
 By age of 5-7 they often draw rigid boundaries between
sexes in their efforts to understand the binary gender
system . Girls are expected to like ribbons and dresses
and enjoy quiet play .

21.  For both boys and girls , the more traditional
assumption about what it means to be and how
you should behave as a girl , the rates of
depression.
 For girls , adolescent pregnancy tends to be
higher, and for boys , beliefs in coercive
behavior in relationship with girls in higher .
 Holding these very traditional stereotypes about
yourself as a boy or a girl is not healthy at all .