Gender Mainstreaming: Tools and Techniques in Education

This report delves into the concept of gender mainstreaming, focusing on the tools and techniques used to integrate gender perspectives into various systems, particularly within educational institutions. It highlights the importance of recognizing and addressing gender-based inequalities. The report emphasizes the 'visioning' tool as a key method for analyzing and transforming institutional practices to promote gender equality. The report examines how visioning can foster gender balance in decision-making processes and ensure equal opportunities for all. The report also stresses the importance of using gender-sensitive language and policies to improve student outcomes and raise awareness about gender equality. The report references academic sources that support the importance of gender mainstreaming in education.

GENDER MAIN-
STREAMING
TOOLS/TECHNIQUES

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Gender Main-streaming Tool...........................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

Gender Main-streaming Tool
Gender main-streaming is an integration which is systematic and is related to equality in
gender into all system, structures, policies and programs. This system tend to identify the method
in which existing system are male centred (Sawer, 2018). Visioning can be one of the most
important gender main-streaming tool that can be used in education institution. It can help in
analysing and identifying how significant practices and arrangement of institutions can give
more disadvantage to women than men (it can be even vice versa). This educational tool has an
advantage that it produces gender balance during the time of decision making. It can act as a
strength of visioning tool.
The educational tool visioning lays emphasis on that there exist no gender main-
streaming on the basis of language used for women and men. The gendered language that has
been utilised in the universities and educational institution when imparting bachelors degree or
reward should be appropriate (Staudt, 2018). Visioning focuses on that gender equality must
strictly be followed in educational institution so that it can assist in raising performance of the
students. This tool helps in raising awareness among teachers and students about the importance
of gender equality (Gender main-streaming toolkit for teachers, 2018). Educational institution by
using this tool can measure the effectiveness of policies and procedures laid by them. Visioning
helps in giving equal opportunities to men and women by creating gender sensitivity. If
educational institution make used of this tool in imparting education to students then this can
raise their productivity as well as efficiency.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Sawer, M., 2018. The life and times of women’s policy machinery in Australia.
In Mainstreaming gender, democratizing the state?. Manchester University Press.
Staudt, K., 2018. Gender mainstreaming: Conceptual links to institutional machineries.
In Mainstreaming gender, democratizing the state?. Manchester University Press.
Online
Gender main-streaming toolkit for teachers. 2018. [Online]. Available through
<https://www.rosavzw.be/digidocs/dd-
000656_2014_Gender_Mainstreaming_Toolkit_for_Teachers_and_Teacher_Educators_
CoL.pdf>
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