(PDF) Masculinity and Femininity

Gender (inequality,
constructions of masculinity
and femininity)

Table of Contents
“Parents can promote gender equality and help prevent violence against women: Here's How”. .3
Rational ...........................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7

“Parents can promote gender
equality and help prevent violence
against women: Here's How”
Gender inequality and construction of
muscularity & femininity is a major concern in
the present world. A lot of women are
experiencing physical and sexual harassment
which even leads to death. Recently 37
Australian women were killed by violence,
according to studies at least one women is
killed by a existing or former partner in a
week. It is a increasing issue which needs to be
controlled strictly, but needs the contribution
of both the government as well as citizens of
different countries. There are many factors that
drives this cruel violence, the key drivers are
Stereotyped construction of masculinity and
femininity & Rigid gender roles that give rise
to violence against women. Along with this
various academic research shows traditional
attitudes towards gender are one the biggest
predictors of attitudes supporting this violence.
Australia's world first national framework for
preventing violence against women determines
challenging rigid gender stereotypes and roles
as a main action to prevent such action in the
first place. There are various strategies or
measures which can be considered for prevent
gender inequality and violence against women.
Resources available for teaching about
gender equality
Interactive techniques such as storytelling,
games and role playing can assist in teaching
children regarding gender equality. For
example, Parents and children can play a card
game or any other similar activity in order to
match male and female characters doing the
same profession. In Australia, parents can
utilise various resources from the
“BecauseWhy” campaign which was
introduced in 2017 for encouraging parents to
challenge rigid gender stereotypes and
promoting different interests with their young
children. A campaign run by Our watch
includes digital resources such as online
articles, short films and websites.

This strategies starts early in the home, it is
very important to promote or develop a sense
of gender equality among the young ones or
upcoming generation. Early childhood is a
main developmental period when children
starts to learn about gender. Gender varies
from a individual's biological sex, a person's
sex is based on physical features such as
hormones, reproductive organs and anatomy.
Their gender is the manner they evaluate and
act on the basis of social expectations and
learned roles. Since birth, children learn about
gender appropriate behaviours and attitudes
through gender socialisation. They learn about
gender through intrinsic gender roles and
norms as they communicated with people close
to them. Families are primary agents of gender
socialisation and generally provide first
sources of learning and information about
gender for children. Individual who are
supporting rigid relations and roles are more
likely to endorse attitudes that excuse, justify,
trivialise or minimise violence against women,
or blame women at least a little accountable for
the violence against them. It has been
determined that not all the boys who play with
trucks are going to be violent but traditional
masculine gender ideologies and roles are
linked with violence of men against women.
Practical things parents can do at home –
Parents first requires to get highly aware of
Schools and other community intervention
needs to promote gender quality as well
It is not possible for parents alone to teach
gender equality to their children, as they spend
their time in other places where they learn and
grow such as schools. It is important for the
teachers and other staff to endure that there is
not kind of gender inequality taking place in
their school or classrooms. Various programs
to promote equality among boys and girls
should be conducted in the schools and
colleges such as sports, activities and equal
opportunities must be given to girls so that
they can motivated. All these activities can
help in reducing the violence in the society or
community as well as makes the world a better

rigid gender gender stereotypes and
consciously question their necessity, impact
and existence. Parents mainly implicitly
strengthen gender stereotypes, even when they
wish not to. Such as parents can communicate
messaged regarding gender appropriate
activities and emotions when reading story
books of their children. For example, they may
label gender neutral angry characters for boys
and sad characters as girls. Parents can also
promote gender equality by supporting a wide
range of activities for both their daughters &
sons. Since the period of infancy, boys are
given more equipments related to sports, tools
and toy cars. On the other hand girls are given
more kitchen appliances, dolls and pink
clothes. Although, infants generally have
overlapping and equal interests in toys & it is
the gendered marketing of toys that highly
affects preferences of children as they grow.
place for girls and women.
Rational
From my unit Gender inequality and construction of masculinity and femininity, I
decided to create a brochure for Times magazine that demonstrate the issue regarding gender
inequality and violence against women. The brochure might be useful in spreading awareness
related to gender equality among the people. It consist of various measures which can be taken
for eliminating any kind of inequality among girls and boys or women and men. This Brochure is

a way to reach the readers of the magazine. It can help them to understand the importance of
promoting equality among the children at schools, home and workplace so that they can think in
a equal way. It was really interesting to read and study about this issue in the community which
also motivated me to create a brochure and stand against this problem in the society. It will also
help in reducing to a huge population in a form of readers who may understand the increasing
issues in the community in present world (Promoting gender equality, 2016). Schools and other
community intervention needs to promote gender quality as well that includes various methods
for example – conducting promotional campaign, providing equal opportunities to boys and girls
etc.

REFERENCES
Online
Promoting gender equality. 2016. [Online]. Available
through:<https://theconversation.com/parents-can-promote-gender-equality-and-help-prevent-
violence-against-women-heres-how-99836>.