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- Males and females in our society have different experiences and circumstances in each life, and differences in social and economic positions. The gender sensitive policy will reflect the characteristics and differences of the gender so that the effect of the policy will be shown as the social equality of the gender.
- As the policy takes considerations on many social classes and regional factors such as metropolitan, agricultural districts, workers, the disabled, and so on, the gender sensitive policy uses the gender itself as an important criteria in evaluating and comparing the present situation.
- We refer 'Gender impact assessment' as a policy tool to support the formation of the gender sensitive policy, while some foreign countries are calling under the name of 'Gender analysis', 'Gender equality analysis', so on. The budget for the gender sensitive policy will be arranged if this policy tool (Gender impact assessment) is applied for the business of national finance.
- In order to promote the gender impact assessment, the system to generate the statistics of sex (gender sensitive) must be established to utilize as the basic data for analysis. According to the law, it is prescribed that only public institutions producing the statistics from the basic laws of females development and National law of statistics, can produce the statistics for gender.
- Biological Sex
- - Biological sex is related to the characteristics of body such as chromosomes, reproduction, hormone, and other physiological conditions, and those biological characteristics divide into females and males from the moment of birth.
- Biological sex is nature and permanent.
- However, in societies, the biological differences often tend to cause the social position or capability of males and females. - Social Gender
- - "Social gender" comparing with "Biological sex", is relatively a new idea. At the 4th Women's Federation for World Peace in Beijing, China, the procedures to include the word "Social gender" in a code of conduct were so controversial to result in the amendment of page 31.
- Social gender is not decided by biological factors, but by social, cultural, and psychological characteristics that are formed within the applied societies and have relations with males and females.
- In public and private areas, some roles and responsibilities are given and expected for females and males.
- Social gender includes not only roles, attitudes, and behaviors expected by females and males, but alsounequal relationship of males and females.
- Duties, roles and functions performed by males are evaluated higher than by females.
Males are considered as the standard of whole society, which affects the policies and social systems and reproduces the unequality of males and females without intentions. - Gender role
- - It means the attitude and behavior of males and females that is considered as being desirable in society.
- In many societies, males are considered as independent and objective, while females are consideredas compromising and patient, grown up and encouraged to show more dependent and emotionalaspects.
- Almost every society has prejudice that males are leaders and productive workers to take care of family, and females are wives and mothers as a supporter.
- However, the notion of gender role is educated through the socialization and changeable, so shows differently according to society, culture, social class, age, and chronical period. - Gender needs
- - It is necessary to be more sensitive to the gender needs in order to form the policy toward gender sensitive. Gender needs are divided by practical needs and strategical needs.
- Practical needs are short terms and immediate needs, and comes from traditional gender roles. For examples, installation of water supply and drainage to be required for household, maternity protection, childcare facilities, mastering skills and so on are included.
Although these requirements are fulfilled, the unequal relationship of males and females are not improved.
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