gender identity

1. A PRESENTATION BY
AMANINDER SANDHU
B.ED 1ST ,SLDAV COLLEGE
(AMBALA CITY)

4. GENDER IDENTITY
• Gender identity is the
personal sense of one’s own
gender .
• Gender identity can correlate
with sex at birth , or can
differ from it.
• Gender refers to how a
particular culture
differentiates masculine &
feminine social roles.
• Males and females , a
gender binary system and
which includes expectations
of masculinity and femininity

6. UNDERSTANDINGGENDERCANBEBROKENINTO
4 PARTS:
• Understanding the concept of gender .
• Learning gender role standards and
stereotypes .
• Identifying with parents .
• Forming gender preferences .

7. 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 .
 Hormonal influences are also complex ; sex
determining hormones are produced at an early
stage of fetal development

8. Gender role :
• Gender identity 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

9. IDENTITY WORK IS GENDERED DURING A WORK
TRANSITION IN 3 WAYS :
• 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 .

11. •Role Of Family
The family is the most important social
group in society. It’s also the most
important influences in a child’s life. The
family plays an essential role in child’s :
> In Education , Physical and
Emotional Needs.
> In Protection and Material Support.
> In Nurture, Love and give Emotional
Support. > In
Spiritual Guidance.

12. # FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION
CHILDREN INTERIORIZE THEIR
PARENT’S MODEL DIFFERENT THINGS .
EACH PARTNER HAS ESTABLISHED
THEIR RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES .
• 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

15. • 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 .

16. • 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

17. • # Family is not just an
institution of many people
living together under one roof
; but the union of similar
minded and mutually loving
people bound with 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.

19. • Mediaand gender refers to the relationship between
mediaand gender , and howgender is represented
withinmedia.
• These platforms include but are not limitedto film
,television ,journalism and video games.
• Initiatives and resources exist to promotegender
equalityand reinforce women’sempowerment in the
mediaindustryand representations.

20. • 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 .

21. • 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.

22. GENDER STEREOTYPES

31. GENDER ROLES AND
STEREOTYPES
• 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.

32. Health impact of stereotypes
• 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.
• Holding these very traditional stereotypes about
yourself as a boy or a girl is not healthy at all .