Basic Concepts for Gender Equality

In this module, we will explore gender roles, stereotypes, and mandates. You will learn the difference between sex and gender, understand gender roles and stereotypes, and how gender mandates affect individuals. The module also covers sex and gender diversity topics, providing a comprehensive foundation for understanding gender equality concepts.

This module examines the sex-gender system and heteropatriarchy. It covers the binary system, hierarchy, repetition, and how the sex-gender system manifests in culture. You will learn about heteropatriarchy and its implications for society, analyzing how these structures create and reinforce gender inequalities.

This module focuses on intersectionality, exploring how different women experience gender inequality based on their multiple identity markers. It examines how various forms of discrimination and privilege intersect and affect individuals differently. The module also addresses whether intersectionality contradicts equality, providing a nuanced understanding of how multiple forms of inequality interact.

This module examines privileges and harms in the use of time and space. It covers the sexual division of labor, productive versus reproductive work, unpaid and paid domestic work, care work, and the double workday. The module also addresses gender gaps, the feminization and masculinization of occupations, the pandemic's impact on women, and the use of free time and public space.

This module focuses on co-responsibility in domestic and care tasks for sustaining common life. It explains what conciliation and co-responsibility mean, and the physical and work-related consequences of lack of co-responsibility. The module covers emotional co-responsibility and provides measures to achieve co-responsibility, offering practical approaches to promoting gender equality in domestic and care work.