This document discusses the importance of gender equality and women's leadership. It begins by sharing African proverbs about lions and gazelles to represent the competitive nature of business. It then discusses the need for businesses to keep up with competition. The rest of the document focuses on defining gender and sex, explaining why considering gender is important, discussing how gender roles are socially constructed versus biological sex differences, and emphasizing the need for women's voices and leadership to achieve gender equality. It advocates for recognizing different needs and ensuring equity over equality.

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SOUL OF
LEADERSHIP FOR GENDER
EQUALITY

2. African Realities
Every morning in Africa,
a gazelle wakes up.
It knows that it must run faster than
the fastest lion, or it will be killed.

3. African Realities
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.
It knows that it must outrun the slowest
gazelle, or it will starve.

4. It doesn’t matter whether you are a
Lion or a Gazelle
When the sun comes up,
you had better be running!

5. Unfortunately,
A lot of businesses don’t know
– until it’s too late –
just how fast the competition is
running

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-Répondre à la dynamique de
l'appel
-Face à la solitude du
leadership
-Leader de votre moi
authentique
-Cultiver communauté
spirituelle
-Be patient with the soul of
your leadership
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdQTEnWdN10

8. Contemporary Gender Inequality
• Comparative Gender
Inequality
– What causes improvements
in women’s position in
society?
• Gender Inequality ?
– Why the gender difference in
income?
• Do evolved sex differences
influence work behavior?
– Workplace harassment
– Leadership style
– Language use
– Deference behaviors
Equity does not mean, “We all get the same treatment.”
This would often be unfair and unreasonable.
Special needs at all levels must be addressed.
Equity means, “I get what I need.”
Clarifying “Equity”

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Gender : ‘Gender’ is This is a different from ‘sex’: ‘Gender’ is not
Identifies the social relations between
men and women. It refers to the
relationship between men and women,
boys and girls. It also identifies how these
relationships are socially constructed.
Gender roles are dynamic and change
over time.
-Acquis
-Construction sociale d’un
ensemble de rôles et de
responsabilités
-Appris
-Culturel
-Peut être changé
-
Identifies the biological differences
between men and women. For example,
women can give birth, and men provide
sperm. These sex roles are universal.
-Notion biologique
-Naturel
-Universel
-Ne peut être changé
-Pas de variation d’une culture à
l’autre et d’une époque à l’autre
-Inné
Variation d’une culture à l’autre
et d’une époque à l’autre Exemple : Seules les femmes peuvent
mettre un enfant au monde.
Exemple :Les femmes s’avèrent capables
d’occuper des emplois traditionnellement
réservés aux hommes aussi bien qu’eux.

10. Let’s be clear what ‘gender’ is and is not about…
‘Gender’ is ‘Gender’ is not
About both women
and men – the
different things that
women and men do
and the relationships
between them
Only about women
Only women’s
responsibility

11. Why is gender important?
Why do we need to think about gender?
• There are socially determined differences between men and women based on
learned behaviour, which affect their ability to access and control resources
• Access and control are also determined by other factors such as: class,
ethnicity, age, (dis)ability, location, sexuality, nationality etc.
Gender awareness is about recognising that...
• Women and men have different needs based on their different roles
• Structural inequalities exist in every society that disadvantage women on
social, political and economic levels.
• Women’s needs and rights are often made invisible or ignored
• Men can also be negatively affected because of social expectations of how they
should behave and what they should achieve.
• The contributions of both men and women are needed for positive and lasting
change

12. Everything that involves people is gendered…
… because women and men have
different roles, opportunities,
vulnerabilities and life
experiences…
… So: Everything we do will have a gendered impact
(whether or not we think about it)

13. Talking about gender: ‘we can’t change that, that’s culture’
People often fear that tackling gender inequality may be
inappropriate because it challenges ‘tradition’ and ‘culture –
but:
‘What is seen as “the culture” may in fact be a viewpoint held by a
small group of elites keen to hold onto their power and status.’
- From UNFPA State of the World’s Population 2008, Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights
‘Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the
powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.’
- Paulo Freire

14. Gender and culture
 It can be difficult for people in both NGOs
and communities to take on different gender
roles
 Women and men – insiders as well as
outsiders - who challenge gender inequality
may be accused of ‘tampering with the
culture’ or ‘imposing “Western” values
 Challenging power relations can be difficult
and can lead to conflict – needs a careful
approach

15. Gender and culture: Remember that…
Sometimes change in the environment can reinforce gender inequalities and
exacerbate women’s disadvantage:
EXP: ‘Although toting water for families is considered to be the work of
women and children, when it comes to toting water for pay, young
men monopolise the work – using wheelbarrows and bicycles however,
and not head loads!’
Source: Tanzania Gender Networking Program
So it is important that we consider the
gender implications of everything we do.

16. Power
Rights
Entitlement
Inequalities
Transform
Challenge
So We can Believe

17. Global
National
Community
Family
How Power working within structure

18. What we would like to achieve
• Equal Rights
• Equitable Participation
• Right to make decision
• Freedom of choice
• Gender Equality in different social and political
structures
• Numbers and Visibility

19. Financial
Physical
NaturalSocial
Human
Natural Event
VulnerabilityContext
Hazard Exposed Policy,InstitutionsandProcess
Outcome
Livelihood
Strategy
Approach of REE_CALL

20. Economic
Empowerment
DRR, CCA
Women Rights
and Leadership
Rights and
Entitlements
-Alternative Livelihood
- Value chain and market link
- Private Sector Engagement
- Food and Seed bank
- Risk sharing mechanism
-Water, Sanitation, Hygiene
-Small scale infrastructure
prevention.
-Skill and knowledge
- Analysis model on basis of
scientific data
-Early warning system
- Women Transformative
Leadership.
-Equity Measures
- Ending VAW and Gender
Equality
-Formation CBO
- NRM & Access to ES
- Social safety-Net
- Bank and MFI
- Identity and practice

21. Women had gained
respect through taking
action...
Men recognised their
contribution...
There is a ‘practical gender needs’ strategic change

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TRANSPARENCYPARTICPATIONACCOUNTABILITY
Social
Accountability
From DOWN
to the TOP

23.  Increased respect and voice led to increased confidence ...
Women working together collectively,
women on committees and women influencing decisions
A person with a vision
A person
with soul of
leadership

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 The emphasis :
- on the need for solitude and silence.
Solitude: A Place for Your Soul to Come Out
 The question many leaders are asking is:
how do we stay faithful to our commitments while, at the same time, finding
ways to nurture our souls?
- on leadership as plural
 And Instead of being about how to ‘do’ leadership, this is about how to be more
present to God, and how to clear out the things which will stop us from doing that
 Our leadership will flow from values that have been forged in the crucible of our
spiritual transformation.
 Our vision will emerge from faithful prayer and deep listening.
Our relationships will be enlivened by the love that is poured out in our hearts by the
spirit of God.
 In fact, spiritual leadership emerges from our willingness to stay connected with the
truth about ourselves and allowing that truth to drive us deeper in our own spiritual search
so that we can lead from that place.

25. Go over to you!
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 One of the most important lessons I have learned is how
important
it is to have time and space for being with what’s real in my life
-To celebrate the joys,
-Grieve the losses,
-Shed my tears, sit with the questions,
-Feel my anger,
-Attend to my loneliness
Being With What Is
 In the end, strengthening the soul of our leadership is
the best thing any of us can do to strengthen the soul of
the gender.

27. • Please share your practical tools
• Be practical and continue to Share
your experiences you have bringing a
gender perspectives
• Work hard with the group
In one word
BE involved with BPW for life
My advice for you!
Thanks for your participation today!

28. Questions & Answers