Role of Education in Gender Sensitization

Abstract

Gender sensitization is all about changing behavior and imparting empathy into the views that one holds about one’s own sex and other sex. It explains men and women with each other’s existence and helps to generate respect for the individual regardless of sex. In a patriarchal society like India gender bias begins from the birth, women are discriminated in areas like access to nutrition, childcare, education and work. Patriarchy is a social system which considers male as superiors and gives them more rights and more access to resources and decision making. Traditional roles of women as homemakers and men as bread winners imposed by society have only reinforced the gender imbalance.