WORKING WITH GENDER AND DIVERSITY

1. WORKING WITH GENDER AND DIVERSITY Prague 21.3.2012 Malin Gustavsson, MA, B.Soc. Sc. Diversity Consultantmalin.gustavsson@ekvalita.fi

2. The bridge between theory and practise between working life and university and its challenges

3. EKVALITA AB • Lecture: What do we have to do due to the law? • Moderating: What are the differences/similarities between swedish and finnish gender equality politics? • Workshop: How to we implement gender mainstreaming in the higher managemant in a city? • Material: How do we make parents think about this issues due to their children and youngsters?

4. DISCUSS WITH THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU • Do you have a specific question about gender training? • What do you see as the biggest personal challenge for you in this field? What do you see as the biggest challenge for the work in itself?

5. What knowledge do we want to give? Can we control the knowledge? Which are our methods? What is the form?

6. GIVE A KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HOW TO • SEE • UNDERSTAND • LIGHT AN URGE FOR CHANGE • USE AND CREATE TOOLS FOR CHANGE

7. OUR WAYS OF WORKING • Lecture, training and coaching • Workshops • Surveys, analyses, assessments • Production of different texts and material

8. CONCEPT • What is gender equality? • How can we understand sex and gender (sukupuoli/kön)? • What does it mean to work with gender equality issues? • The norm critical view • What is the need of the organisation/you in this issue?

9. EQUALITY Equality is an on going process towards a society where there is no discrimination becuase of sex, age, etnical or national background, nationality, language, religion, belives, opinion, status of health, disability, sexual orientation or any other cause that is connected to a person. Everyone should have the same rights, obligations and possibilities in all areas of life. Power is equal divided between all people. Gender Equality means to put the focus on sex and gender

10. WHERE IS THE ”SEX/GENDER” SITUATED?* • The sex/gender is situated in the body • The sex/gender is situated in the head • ”We are what we do” (behaviour, attributes) • Your own suggestion *this just an example of an exercise when there is only one word for sex and gender

11. DIFFERENT WAYS OF APPROACHING THE ”SEX” Physical sexGenitals → intersexual x and y chromosomes Levels of testosterone and estrogen Mental sex Our experience of our sex/gender.The absence of experienced sex/gender, a stand between, both, or beyond the traditional gender role → transgender, genderqueer, transsexual, postgender, agender, bigender and so on.

12. Gender – the social and cultural sexIt describes the characteristics and abilities that our society connects to men and women as opposed to the physical sex. That we perceive as male/female change over time and space. When body and clothes "mismatch "→ transvestism

13. HETERONORMATIVITY SKIRTS TROUSERS ♂ ♀ Equal possibilities, equal values?

14. NORMS Norm/s Written/spoken or unwritten/unspoken rules about what is "right" or "normal". Norms are all concepts, ideas and unwritten rules that shape human beings. Norms have with discrimination and power to do → Breaking the norms has consequences

15. HETERONORMATIVITY • Norms where gender and sexuality is in focus • Norms that exclude and value people differently  Unequlity and gender unequality are maintained and reproduced through heteronormativity. Heteronormativity limit the possibility to be who you want to be, where all are seen as equally valued.

16. DISCUSSION TOPICS • What can we do in our work in order not to re-produce heteronormativity?

17. AN NORM CRITICAL VIEW To put the light on the norms Questioning different norms that limit and sterotype people due to sex, age, etnic or national origin, nationality, language, religion, convincency, opinion, status of health, disability, sexuality or anything else connected to an individual.