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Gender in relation : ideas for gender mainstreaming process
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Egalitarian concepts of gender Masculine principles, behavior and characteristics are equal to those with a feminine connotation. The emphasis of autonomy, status and social prestige, for example, is just as important as a set of guiding principles for individuals as an emphasis on social relations, interdependency and cooperation. Multifaceted concepts of desire Desire between persons is independent of gender; homosexuality is just as normal as heterosexuality or bisexuality. Complex concepts of desire Desire can be homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual In the course of life or change throughout a persons life. Egalitarian concepts of desire Desire is accepted independent of gender. Heterosexuality is not the dominant norm. Multifaceted concepts of sex Every individual combines masculine and feminine characteristics of sexuality. Morphology, chromosomal sex, genital sex, hormonal sex and the biological sex of the brain structure are different determinants that can have different manifestations. Hermaphrodites, intersexuals and transsexuals are considered as normal forms gender. Complex concepts of sex In every person, the anatomical features determined by gender have a combined effect and can change over time. Egalitarian concepts of sex Masculine and feminine features are considered equal and their gender classification has no implications on dominance or subordination. 1.3 Gender is also a characteristic of structures Gender serves not only as a characteristic of individuals. Womens, Mens and Gender studies focus not only on the subject, but also on the norms, institutions, and social rules and mechanisms that they create. The analysis focuses on the effects of gender concepts on social structure. The issue is how social systems can always re-produce gender differences, how exclusivity and exclusion processes based on gender variables work and how real inequality between men and women is generated. A particularly effective mechanism is the denial of the relevance of gender. Feminist political scientists are working to provide proof of the androcentrism of the current theories of politics and the state and to decipher government institutions and policies as supposedly gender neutral(Kreisky, Sauer 1995). However, the labor market, the educational system, the economy as well as other social systems have gender-related features(Gottschall 1998). The power of symbolic orders that contain gender models is particularly evident in the mass media(Werner 2004). 11