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Day III: 26 September 2008
Session: Gender Mainstreaming and Lifecycle Approach
Resource Person: Dr.Saroj Menon, Reader, Dept of RBM, NIHFW
Sessional Objectives
To describe the life cycle approach and main-streaming
streaming gender, Health & Development.
Dr. Menon started by sharing some common messages for Gender Identity,
which we constantly see and hear:
•What the male and females do?
•The places they can and can't go to
•The hours they can go out
•How they can dress?
•The image they need to give to the rest of society
•The things they can learn and the things they can talk about, the way to
express one's sexuality
•The resources and benefits to which one has access
•The decisions one can make and the ones that cannot be made by a
person
She highlighted the importance of Gender and Health and stated that
behaviour has an important role in health disparities, for example, young
men take greater risks, causing injury and violent death, and men smoke
more. In industrialized countries women are born with an advantage; their
life expectancy is longer than those of men. This advantage is prominent in
childhood; girls are more likely to survive the first five years of life than boys.
However, does this female advantage endure in parts of the world where
gender discrimination exists? Gender discrimination at each stage of the life
cycle contributes to:
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