久しぶりに、ジェンダー分析をクラスで実施してみた。分野別に、どういったジェンダー課題があるか、状況分析とその背景分析をする作業を通じて、普段あまり配慮していないみじかなジェンダー問題について協議。
なかなか面白かったのは、「女性は子どもを産んだら仕事を辞めるべきだと社会が考えている」という主張があったことと、「生理があるため・・・」っていう発言が男子学生2名からでたこと。
↓ある日のランチ、学生たちと打ち合わせしながらクメール料理
Economy
- People think women should stop working after childbirth: women must respect husbands
- Women get less salary for the same job as men: never be properly paid
- Women have less access to resources: discourage women to start business
- Traditional perception towards women- women themselves hold back not to get high position
- Laid off first when crisis
- Lower skilled, limited job opportunities
Health
- Breast cancer: high level of prevalence
- Menstrual cycle- period time not feeling well; do not see doctors- they think it easy
- HIV/AIDS: unprotected sex
- Phi…..cancer
- Unprotected sex
- Reproductive health/sexuality
Education
- Early marriage: Women feel shy to continue studying
- Low education due to poverty: migration to cities to support family
- Perception of parents towards girls education: Some parents make decision for daughters
- Women must take care of parents
- No power for decision- follow parents decision to stop
- Women easily cheated- and trafficked
Political decision making
- Traditional discrimination against women: men do not value women, women do not value/believe themselves
- Women have lots of work at home: must responsible for work
- Women can not go far away: security, childcare
- Women can not work while pregnancy
- Women have period so difficult to work
- Women incapable to be top