Gender Sensitization
What is Gender Sensitization?
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Gender sensitization, it involves from making understand the difference between sex and gender, how gender is socially constructed and the stereotypes around gender roles. This sensitization also can include on understanding violence and how it is inflicted upon by certain masses. How one gender is favoured or dominant at things, spaces, work, etc.
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Gender sensitizing "is about changing behavior and instilling empathy into the views that we hold about our own and the other genders." It helps people in "examining their personal attitudes and beliefs and questioning the 'realities' they thought they know.