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Graduation from a Gender Perspective
Gender Mainstreaming for Shiree Beneficiaries
Lesson Learning WorkshopBarisal, February 4-6, 2013
What are the main challenges to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
that our female Shiree beneficiaries continue to face?
• Dowry/Early Marriage• Sexual Violence/Abuse• Sexual Harassment/Eve-
teasing• Division of Household tasks• Abandoned
Women/Female-headed households
• Intra-household differences of Poverty/Graduation
• Girls’ access to education: enrollment and graduation
• Women’s Lower job training opportunities
• Unequal Wages• Women’s Access to paid
work• Others?
Group Exercise
• 4 Groups with one Gender Topic Each: - Dowry/Early Marriage- Sexual Violence/Abuse/Harrassment/Eve-teasing - Access to Education/Job Market/Equal Wages/Business - Intra-HH differences of IGA/Graduation
• Discuss and Answer Questions:1) What are NGOs currently doing?2) Why does it continue? (Social structures, norms, attitudes, values, power
hierarchies)3) What can NGOs do differently?
Overarching theme: Powerbrokers! Male/Leader attitudes, Engagement of Men/Leaders/Communities in gender mainstreaming process
Open Discussion: What can NGOs do differently
in Gender Mainstreamingfor Gender-Equal Graduation?
How to change attitudes of powerbrokers and engage them in gender mainstreaming process?
Example: husbands, sons, male authorities, male religious leaders
Thank You!