It talks about: #Gender ( Male, Female, Transgender) #Relation between gender and society ( religion, culture) #Feminist society #Understand Contradictions in our thinking ( societal behavior) #Discrimination of gender in the society ( context of Bangladesh, and world) #Sectors of discrimination #Contemporary gender role #Feminism #Societies point of view.

1. Nawrin Akhtar
Notre Dame University Bangladesh1

2. Assignment Topic2

3. Society- Organization or club formed for a particular
purpose or activity.
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4. Gender
 Gender refers how society ascribes meaning to what it means to
be a man or a women in that society.
 Socially constructed definition of women and men.
 Not same as sex (biological characteristics of women and men).
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5. Relation between Gender and Society
 Society and Gender
Reciprocal
Gender = Major part of
society
Religion, culture, family,
gender included in society
Religion = Parenting,
Domestic Roles , Role
models.
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6. Legal Rights
Labor Force Participation
Occupation Structure and Earnings
Political power
Transformation in Family Structure
Domestic Division of Labor
Sexuality
Most common things in genders6

7. Characteristics of Gender
Point of view of Society
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8.  Not counted in the society.
 Males that identify as women and females that identify as men.
 Trans genders feel on the inside doesn’t match what physically
exists on their outside. Most trans genders explain this as feeling
“trapped” in the bodies they were born with.
 They are not allow
 In School
 At work
 In college
 In religious and traditional Occasions.
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 Family (teach every single person the behavior about particular gender)
 Early marriage
 Familial ideology
 Domestic
 Education (18 per cent of women between 15 and 24 can read)
 Working place (govt. deciding society)
 Medical
 Political sector (15.6% of political seats out of 50%)
 Women’s salaries average only 72-88% to men’s salaries
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11. Sectors of discrimination
World Wide Bangladesh
As a result they become victim of domestic violence
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12. Sectors of discrimination Cont….
Religion:(Beliefs some ideology which
differentiate the gender identity)
 Wear burkha to women
 Cover their heads
Culture
 Visual pleasure of male in Film (Laura Mulvey)
 woman in films in meant to be looked at.
 Visual pleasure of male gaze
 Portray male as powerful
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13. Discrimination in the context of world
 Forbidden from driving
 Right to divorce
 Can't Travel Alone
 Sexual subjugation
 Access to education
 Right to travel
 Victims of violence
 Custody rights
 Citizenship
 Female infanticide
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14. Understand Contradictions in our thinking
For example: We believe in equality --- except for gays , lesbians
We believe that women deserve equal opportunity, except we only feel
comfortable with women nurturing.
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15. Feminism Society
A belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.
Four main theories about feminist society
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Gender
Differences
Gender
Inequality
Gender
Oppression
Structural
Oppression the
Workplace
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16. Feminism society
The opportunities of feminist society
82% ability to associate with people they
respect
79% freedom to be themselves
64% opportunity to be flexible with
schedule
61% opportunity to collaborate with others
56% give back to the community
51% recognition from the company
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17. Contemporary Gender Role
 Women now works in office.
 They also propose boys.
 Men are doing household works.
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18. To sum up
 Gender ( Male, Female, Transgender)
 Relation between gender and society ( religion,
culture)
 Feminist society
 Understand Contradictions in our thinking ( societal
behavior)
 Discrimination of gender in the society ( context of
Bangladesh, and world)
 Sectors of discrimination
 Contemporary gender role
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