LEARNING FROM THE PAST, PLANNING FOR

THE FUTUREEmpowering Next Generations of Women and Girls

ANTHROPOLOGY YIELDS A LONG TERM VIEW ON

GENDER INEQUALITY AND WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS

IMAGES OF HAMMURABI’S CODE

THERE ARE EXAMPLES OF SOCIETIES WHERE WOMEN HAVE OR HAD SUBSTANTIAL

POWER

SOME STATISTICS INDICATING “GENDERCIDE” OR FEMALE INFANTICIDE

THE LONG LIST OF MAJOR CHALLENGES PART 1

--Extreme Poverty: girls and women = 70% of persons living in extreme poverty --Multiple Forms of Violence including trafficking, sexual exploitation, infanticide, battering, FGM, honor killings… --Lack of or restricted access to reproductive health and other health concerns --Environmental Degradation, Dangerous Climate Change, Food Security, access to potable water, food and fuel

CHALLENGES FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN, SLIDE 2

Conflict, War and Terrorism (including proliferation of WMD by terrorists and rogue states); refugees, Internally Displaced Persons --Financing for implementation of existing laws and policies supporting equality for women and girls --Sharing of responsibilities for home and family including meal preparation, childrearing, cleaning, caring for elderly and sick relatives --Increased participation of women in government and senior management positions to develop and mainstream gender sensitive policies

Gender diversity terms and concepts Gender identity: how we feel on the inside. Gender expression: how we present our gender to the world through hairstyle, clothing and behaviors. Cisgender: biology and identity match Transgender:

Sex diversity facts Intersex: refers to individuals with ambiguous sex characteristcs who are born with or who develop them later in life: btwn 1.7-4% of the world’s population are born with intersex traits expressed via chromosomes (XXX, XXY, etc) anatomy and hormonal variation. http://www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/index1.html

GENDER AND SEX CULTURALLY CONSTRUCTED

EXAMPLES OF FEMINIST THEORETICAL/DISCIPLINARY AND

ACTIVIST ORIENTATIONS Feminist Anthropology/archaeology

Feminist Critical literary theory Eco-feminism Feminist Psychology Feminist HERstory Third World feminisms Womanism Black feminist theory

Feminist History of science Legal studies/International Human rights Queer theory Intersectionality Feminist Linguistics Women in Development (WID) Women and Development (WAD)

MORE EXAMPLES OF FEMINIST DISCIPLINARY AND ACTIVIST PERSPECTIVES Gender and Development (GAD) Liberal, Socialist and Radical Feminisms Participatory Action Research Intersubjectivity Collaborative self-reflexivity