| Short Summary |
| Title |
Gender or Sex: Who Cares? - Skills-building Resource
Pack on Gender and Reproductive Health for Adolescents and Youth Workers
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| Author |
De Bruyn, M. and France, N. |
| Publication Date |
2001 |
| Publisher |
Health and Development Networks and Ipas: Chapel
Hill |
| Short Summary
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What is the difference between gender and sex?
How does gender affect our health? This manual offers an introduction
to the topic of gender and sexual and reproductive health (SRH), with
a special emphasis on violence, HIV/STIs, unwanted pregnancy and unsafe
abortion, and is for professionals and volunteers who work with young
people concerning the influence of gender on SRH issues. A workshop
curriculum is provided that incorporates suggestions and feedback
from organisations in various regions of the world. A series of participatory
activities encourage participants to think about the difference between
gender and sex as well as social values associated with women and
men, feminine and masculine. There is for example an exercise that
looks at how the media portrays men and women. Another enables participants
to identify ways in which women and men mistreat each other and how
this affects SRH. The exercises also ask participants to consider
how such issues relate to their own lives, and causes, consequences
and solutions to problems such as violence and other risks to SRH.
Before presenting their findings to the group participants analyse
how SRH services can be made more appropriate and accommodating to
young people. Each exercise offers several adaptations to make it
a more flexible resource. For curriculum cards and overhead transparencies/handouts
write to Ipas, P.O. Box 999 Carrboro, NC 27510 U.S.A., Tel: (800)
334-8446 (toll free in US), or(919) 918-2085, Fax: (919) 918-2094.
(A Spanish version is available at: http: //www.ipas.org/arch/pdf/GenderBookSpan.pdf)
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