#GenderandDevelopment

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I. Sexuality

A. Overview of Adolescent/Teenage Sexual and Reproductive  Health in the Philippines

Sex education is really necessary for the school setting because through this the youth will have knowledge about their sexual and reproductive health. It's saddening to think about youths engaging in sexual activities because they are believed to be the hope of the nation and to know that some of them are almost willing to throw their futures, it's threatening as an adult because I think we could've done better for these children. I think one of the reasons why the rates of young people engaging in premarital sex in the Philippines is increasing is because we don't acknowledge sex education as much as how the countries adapt to it. As grown-ups, I think we failed to guide them and maybe they lack affection from their homes reason why they seek love from others. If we could just become better adults and change some things in our education system (like normalizing sex education), I think we can lead the youth better to the right path. 

B. Circles of Human Sexuality (Poster)

[mheyrmedia]

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#MemberIssueNo_116: What are examples of authorized GAD-related activities/programs/projects?

#MemberIssueNo_116: What are examples of authorized GAD-related activities/programs/projects? hello po. pahide na lang po ng identity ko. kasama po kasi ako as accounting personnel bilang GAD alternate. may maisuggest po ba kayo na activities na GAD related? at yung hindi madisallow. hehe salamat po. (sic) #GenderAndDevelopment #GADRelatedActivities #AllowedGADActivities #GABOTAF View…

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Late Post due to my Hectic Schedule yesterday, 22 October 2019, Tuesday - Day 2 of Our Gender Sensitivity Seminar at The Manila Hotel: Buffet Breakfast at Cafe Ilang-Ilang #64DaysBeforeChristmas #MerryChristmas Let's eat. ♀️😂♂️ #GenderSensitivity #GenderSensitivitySeminar #GenderSensitivityTraining #GST #GenderAndDevelopment #GAD #TheManilaHotel #BuffetBreakfast #Breakfast #CafeIlangIlang #CulinaryJourney #FoodTrip #FitFood #FoodConnoiseur #JourneyOfLife #JourneyOfFaith #Travel #Backpacking #Journey #Prayer #YOLO #FOMO #JOMO (at Cafe Ilang-Ilang Manila Hotel) https://www.instagram.com/p/B38qvgCBZt_/?igshid=27o6pl2bvkyd

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The Impossible Dream

An Essay by Alec John Bandivas

           The Impossible Dream by United Nations, 1983 is an animated film, co-produced with Dagmar Doubkova of Kratkty Films, Czechoslovakia. One of the film’s intent is to provide awareness about gender roles and inequality, and of course, women empowerment. The Impossible Dream is a powerful tool used to educate people about gender and development, one of the reasons why is because it is effectively communicated in one’s understanding in a visual manner. Visual communication involves the use of visual elements, such as drawings, illustrations and electronic images, to convey ideas and information to an audience. One by one in this essay I would like to make a reflection to elaborate what the film wants to convey in my own point of view and interpretation.

           Let us begin how the film comes about. Initially, the focus was on the dark blue skies of a starry night which represents the dream. A few moments it faded away before an occurrence of downward transition,which shows its low chance of possibility, in short, almost impossible. Next the focus was on various households, I see small houses, big houses, apartment, condominium, hotel, etc. this represents that the issue regarding this matter is existing in whatever status a family may be categorized, meaning, the problem is present whether you are rich or poor. It is noticeable that house after house lights are switched on, which can be visibly seen through windows. This represents that the issue is surfacing family after family, disturbingly, all of us can see it, we just opted to remain passive and silent. Next is a short emphasis on the alarm clock, which showcases the alarming situation our society has, that is indeed needed to be solved. The wife then throws the alarm clock right after she woke up, which proves that some of the women are blinded by the issue of social roles, sticking themselves to their traditional roles. It is also conspicuous that the couple is sleeping on their right hand that may cause numbness. This represents that the couple are numb, meaning they are deprived of responsiveness. Now the question is who? By the society, I also said that they are sleeping on their right hand, meaning dominance or majority. They are deprived of being responsive by the norms of the society, the established rules of the majority. The couple is chained by the issue. After the wife woke up, the husband free his right hand and position himself in a more comfortable manner. This only states that if the women wakes up and put herself into reality, fighting for her right, man will follow. The solution regarding the issue is affected by our individual decision.

           The wife carried the baby towards her daughter giving her the responsibility to take care of her sibling. Take note of the color of the dress of the mother, it is red. After a while, her daughter change her clothes too, wears a dress, and of course red in color. It only states that family takes an important part in building the societal and gender role of an individual. In this case, the roles are repeatedly happening generation after generation, it is constant. This case is also seen in its counterpart, the husband and the son did nothing, dependent on his wife and on his sister, respectively. This is carefully illustrated as the brother waited her sister to wear him his pair of footwear. Now, why red? According to a study in Psychology red is the color of extremes, it is the color of passionate love and seduction. Are they always expected to be this way? Can a woman be as strong and tough as a man, and a man can be as compassionate as a woman? The answer can be found on the next scene, the man also wears red evidently layered by his usual blue jumper, also the color of the clothes of the baby and his son, and the scene takes place in the dining table, the mother tried to hand over her baby towards the father. A few minutes the baby unintentionally discharged urine. The father carefully pushes the baby with impatience handing it over to his wife. I bet you know the answer. However, this is the demand of the society; we still have our own verdict. Sensitively observing the scene, the mother gave two full scoops of food to his husband and one full scoop for each of them, member of the family. This scene strengthens the unfair situation. The man gave her wife a spoonful of food in his wife, which represents his commitment to the family, perhaps his responsibility to the family.

           The family went on their way to their school and workplaces. After going out the door it is obvious that the daughter suspiciously giving a glance to her father, perhaps the girl is thinking of defying the norms of the society, maybe her mom’s impossible dream is not as different as her. The baby was forgotten, left behind at the bus stop. Baby symbolizes the love that is cherished by the couple, now it is least prioritized. Dagmar Doubkova of Kratkty Films, the feminist director and producer of the film, according to a theory of conspiracy that there is a dispute between her and the love of her life. The story was then focused to the husband who corruptly whistled to another woman. This shows dishonesty, disloyalty and unfaithfulness to his wife and an eye opening statement to the audience that majority sees women as a subject for sexual abuse and the disconcerting reality that some people sees women as weak, hopeless, inferior beings and even commodity. On the other hand, his wife is working hard to get a proper comparable amount of salary but still given lesser than what she deserves. Women are unjustly underpaid. After working the husband has time to drink some beer with his colleagues, while the wife bought goods and everything they might need in their house before she went back home. In their home, the daughter helped her mother and the son throws his bag and sat down the chair in the dining table watching television just like his father did. This proves the repeated gender role, a set of societal norms dictating the types of behaviors which are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for people based on their actual or perceived sex or sexuality that shows unfairness. This made me think what will happen to their sons and daughter’s generation? When will be that impossible dream supposed to happen?  After all, the wife did her chores with the help of her daughter after eating dinner. While his husband and son is watching television it is evident that they are watching cartoons, perhaps“Saxana: The Girl on a Broomstick” a famous film in Czechoslovakia way back 1983, the time The Impossible Dream Film is created. The film Saxana has a commentary, “Like I say it's a kid's film, but many say that the Czechs made the best fantasies.” This is very similar to the “The Impossible Dream” the societal issue of the Czechs concerning that time was to restore and reconcile the gender role which they meant to be a fantasy. Although the target audience for the film is adult, the way it is animated is for a kid.

           The next scene was an artistic way of conveying an effort to make a change, to stand up, and to believe. The wife started making clothes that is green in color for his son. It then shows Blue is not only for men and Red is not only for women, we can wear any color. It is a metaphor. There is a change in the film they are watching in the television, it is about a woman who works in the farm with her child at her back. She is plowing the farm, which is designated to be a work of a man, followed by her daughter.  She is now focused on the film, and gave a facial expression of flabbergast and surprise. The man is driving a tractor that would plant a seed all throughout the plowed land, which is a role of a woman, except for the fact that tractor is utilized; it only persuades the audience that the work is a lot easier, like in their cases in their work place. They are now going to bed to sleep. Their hands are free as they are sleeping. And then, she dreamed. Of course, the dream is about changing everything we believe is wrong. She is now living a life she dreamed, but it’s only a dream. Will it become reality?

In conclusion, I would like to emphasize how the film was illustrated through a humorous exaggeration, which also gives an impression of sadness; the film shows the practice of emancipation. It numbers the duties of an employed woman. The longing for a better life is reflected in a colorful dream in which the woman gets understanding and help from her husband. Is it really a dream not to be fulfilled?

United Nations, 1983 -An animated film, co-produced with Dagmar Doubkova of Kratkty Films, Czechoslovakia, takes a wry humorous look at a problem faced by women everywhere: the double-workload of a full-time job and being a housewife. We see an average family with a baby and two school-age children. Both parents work outside the home. The woman puts in the same hours as her husband, for less money. In addition, caring for the children and all the household duties remain her responsibility. Awards: Gala Opening International Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Finalist American Film and Video Festival, New York, USA; Certificate Seventh International Film Festival, Espinho, Portugal.

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Journal Entry #3 - Gender and Development

kasarian • n.

socially constructed characteristics of women and men – such as norms, roles and relationships of and between groups of women and men.

varies from society to society and can be changed.

When we contrasted a man and a woman, most of us would mentioned about physical and biological characteristics of both. This week, one of the topics we tackled was about the LGBTQ+ misconceptions and gender stereotypes by watching a video of Jhayvy doing a FAQs about the LGBTQ+; it’s quite difficult to instill and correct these misconceptions and stereotypes in other people for the media has a powerful impact to their everyday lives and it portrays a certain gender in a small box wherein it restricts what they are capable of. 

We’ve talked about how other people enjoy their rights and freedom without any eye batting to them because their gender and sexual orientation fits what the society approves. On the other hand, groups of people are fighting for their right to experience the same treatment these people get; what’s worse is that the people who already experiences the freedom have the guts to talk about how selfish the LGBTQ+ people have been stating they are already accepted in the society.  

We were asked us to take down what families, school, religion and the media says about how we should act based on our sex and we all found a common denominator in the things we’ve listed. I’m starting to think that it implies that society really dictates how an individual should act depending on their assigned roles. 

This was the most interesting talk for me so far for we learned more about how these group of people are just trying to look for the love the accepted people are experiencing in the society we live in. We should all learn that we are all alike and we should work together to build one another instead of isolating a certain sector of people because in the end, we are all just searching for love.

And with that, I end my journal with another bop that thundered through the gender barrier in 2011.

[jolya]

0 or 1

The following is a journal entry about the second module of the NSTP class dated September 23, 2019. Miss Ivanka Custodio was back and this time talked about gender and development.

As we have been given free rein with how the entry is written (and because I would hate for it to be JUST an informative essay), I will be writing this entry (and most of my entries) with creative liberty. 

Word count: 371 words

7:40 am

As always, I had come way before time and was now stuck waiting again. I didn’t even know why I came so early when the past 2 meetings started at an average time of 9 am.

I looked around the auditorium. I wasn’t the only one this early thankfully.

I settled down on my seat and prepared to wait for more than an hour. At least the jazz music playing was nice.

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The talk started at past nine and I was surprised that it was the same speaker as last time. She made us do an activity about human rights before her actual talk on gender and development. 

Marginalized sector I feel strongly about? 

I stopped to think for a moment before writing down women and children and the violence they experience. 

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“Much of how we see things is shaped by gender.”

Those were the first words I read in my notes.

I was already on the way home. The talk done and over with. I felt the need to just quickly scan my notes for what I understood.

God my writing is terrible.

She didn’t really discuss anything that we didn’t know of, to be honest.

Sex had always been binary. However, gender wasn’t. Sex is what you were born as. Biologically. But gender is how you express yourself as. Not many people get it simply because they’ve been programmed to think that way. 

Programmed seems like such a mean word. Maybe brought up? Yeah brought up seems much nicer. 

Family is where it starts, Miss Ivanka had said. But I guess the environment where one grew up in is more important, not just the family itself. 

I looked up just in time to pull the string on the jeepney. I had almost missed it.

It was only when I got in another jeepney did I remember my notes on the last page. The page where I had written the challenge that Miss Ivanka had given. Only two had stuck to me.

Push for gender equity.

Embrace the diversity and complexity of sex, gender, and identity.

If only it was that easy. If only people weren’t as closed off and closed-minded. Maybe then it would work. 

[solutilis]

NSTP Blog #6

I’m very open to people who are part of the LGBT because to me their gender doesn’t really make them any different. it’s a big part of who they are and I respect that. I guess my only comment would be that I don’t really understand how it happens and why? I’ve always been confused and tried asking my friends how they came to understand that they were ‘different’. I really couldn’t imagine them being different from how they are now and most of the time they say that they just knew. Sometime in there lives they just felt so uncomfortable in their own skin when the act like their ‘assigned gender’. I guess I will never understand the struggle that they go through because I am straight. I can never understand how it feels to be rejected by your family for being who you want to be. I imagine it’s soul crushing. But the freedom of being yourself would feel really liberating. I’m really proud of the friends I have who had the courage to come out and I want to extend my love to all the people I know who are afraid of rejection and have to hide who they are.

I would like to believe that I am an open minded person but I really don’t understand everything after the LGBT. If I’m correct, the acronym now is LGBTIQA+ and I honestly don’t understand the point of the IQA+. It’s so confusing because I want to respect people and address them the way they want to be addressed but how do I know that you’re nonbinary? How am I supposed to identify you among the now almost hundreds of new genders. I feel lost and confused and I don’t understand why this new wave happened but I digress. In the end, it’s important to just be nice. be a decent human being and respect people and their beliefs. I may not agree with some of them, but that doesn’t give me the right to invalidate their opinions.

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Gender and Development Team of SJDEFI - Employee Credit Cooperative #parasakooperatiba #teamwork #GAD #genderanddevelopment (at San Juan de Dios Educational Foundation)

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The perkz of attending seminar we got the chance to relax... #genderanddevelopment #effectivecommunicator 😊😚🤗

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V. Risk Reduction Behavior

Parent engagement , these two words is definitely the best prevention and solution to risk reduction because if you grew up with the guidance of your parents, you will develop a healthy mental and emotional state. This is not my personal experience but rather an experience of my half cousin, I am older than her and she’s still 16 now. Life is very hard on her because she receives little to no support. Her mother, half sister of my father, was impregnate in a very young age. My cousin came into the world without a father and as soon as she reached 5 years old her mother choose to leave her to our lola’s care who is already dead years ago.  Growing up, she often gets bullied by kids her age and even us her family which I’m very sorry and guilty about. She had a bad childhood and now that she’s already 16 it’s reflecting on her attitude. As young as 14, she already experienced the things a 19 year old like me haven’t. She entered romantic relationships and experienced getting drunk, she would go home every dawn and even run away a couple of times in their home to live with her boyfriend. Just this year, police officers from Balingasag kept contacting our relatives in Libertad because she got caught together with her friends in the street during curfew hours. With her age that young, she managed to embrace the darker side of life because she thought nobody loves her. There’s a lot of bad things she did that I can’t disclose that is related to this topic but my family tried to save her. We are the only family in our relatives who’s willing to help her because everyone has already given up. We sheltered her and treated her as a sister but maybe her childhood was too dark the extent that she couldn’t change right now. During a pandemic, she bad the guts to ran away from our house to live with his boyfriend who is also a minor and whom she only met online. After the love and care we’ve given her, she still chose the wrong path. My mom doesn’t want to let her live under our roof again because she’s afraid of being blamed if something happens to her. Right now, my cousin is under the care of my other aunt who lives nearby. Maybe, if her mother didn’t leave her she won’t grew up that way and if only she has a father who is there to protect her she would’ve been not wounded like this now. Parents engagement towards their children is indeed the only prevention and solution to risk reduction because everything starts from home.

[mheyrmedia]

The #alaGAD in me is happy ‘cause HGDG is now integrated in SurSur’s L&D Management System. Kudos to Ms. @karakumiku & Sir Marvs for helping me make this happen. #HRDmattersinSurSur #HGDG #GADvocate #GenderandDevelopment (at Deped Surigao Del Sur Division) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLV6AxznRWE/?igshid=1mtzx3wf3hzs7

[attyvicsimon]

Late Post due to my Hectic Schedule yesterday, 22 October 2019, Tuesday - Day 2 of Our Gender Sensitivity Seminar at The Manila Hotel: Buffet Breakfast at Cafe Ilang-Ilang #64DaysBeforeChristmas #MerryChristmas Let's eat. ♀️😂♂️ #GenderSensitivity #GenderSensitivitySeminar #GenderSensitivityTraining #GST #GenderAndDevelopment #GAD #TheManilaHotel #BuffetBreakfast #Breakfast #CafeIlangIlang #CulinaryJourney #FoodTrip #FitFood #FoodConnoiseur #JourneyOfLife #JourneyOfFaith #Travel #Backpacking #Journey #Prayer #YOLO #FOMO #JOMO (at Cafe Ilang-Ilang Manila Hotel) https://www.instagram.com/p/B38qWEShznP/?igshid=njk0vdmx4quy

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#genderanddevelopment

[imschneewittchen]

III. Safe Sex

We can't stop people from engaging themselves to sex because we have no control of their decisions and it's human nature but we can educate everyone instead of the benefits we can get if we do safe sex. We are well-informed that not everyone is responsible enough for unwanted pregnancies, some resort to inhumane acts to run away from responsibilities because they can't stay committed or they aren't ready yet for bigger obligations. Using any kind of protection during sex can lessen pregnancy rates and even reduce the number of abortions if you can't stand with the consequences of your actions.  If you're sexually active and is jumping from one partner to another, safe sex can help you avoid sexually transmitted disease.  They say prevention is better than cure and it's factual because it is better to take precautionary measures rather than dealing with the aftermath of your irresponsibilities. It's time for our country to be finally open about concerns like sex and protection because it will always exist in our realities. Let's stop being narrow-minded and start opening our minds to sensitive topics because this will serve as prevention and will help us to be more guided with our actions.