Gender Concern In Education

ABSTRACT- After the December 16, 2012, gang rape of a 23 year-old girl in Delhi and other crimes against the women, the debate was on the societal upbringing and education of boys and their mindsets which lead to increasing crimes against women. A PIL was also filed in the Supreme Court seeking direction to the government for guidelines to impart education relating to the importance of women and the offence against them at appropriate levels of education including primary, elementary and higher education which would help curb male prejudice against women INTRODUCTION- Gender is a social construct that impacts attitudes, roles, responsibilities and behavior patterns of boys and girls, men and women in all societies. Gender relations vary from

It deals with human concerns encompassing diversities and differences. It has been the most endemic form of discrimination operating across cultures in developed and developing societies. When one analyses the present context of gender discourses, the prime concern is how gender functions as a determinant of politics of knowledge production.
Gender Concern in Education Education has the inbuilt potential of initiating social change in the context of gender relations. Therefore, conscious and pluralistic interventions have been put forward by the Government of India to address gender equality in education at the 2 centre and state level. A landmark initiative was undertaken in 1986, with the enactment of the National Policy on Education (NPE) and its revised POA 1992. This philosophy has also been reflected in the National Policy on Empowerment of Women 2001. The policy focuses on promoting gender sensitive curriculum for addressing gender discrimination at all levels of education. The new draft of National Policy lays emphasizes on “Encourage, Educate and Employ”, all irrespective of their

Gender and its accompanying power relations are built in all institutions of society be it family , educational institutions , work places , beliefs , norms , etc. Gender relations do not operate in a social vacuum but are the products of the ways in which institutions are organized and reconstituted .
Gender sensitization is all about changing behaviour and instilling empathy into the views that we hold about our own and other sex . It helps people in examining their personal attitudes and beliefs and questioning the 'realities' they thought they know . Gender sensitization acquaints men and women with each other's existence and to gain fruitful results in an organization as well as at home . Gender is determined socially ; it is the societal meaning assigned to male and female . All institutions of society exhibit gender disparity as gender is rarely thought to be important and hardly understood and addressed