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    Gender studies analyzes how gender and sexuality impact society and create inequalities. It emerged from feminism's challenge to male-centered knowledge and explores changing gender roles over history. Researchers use qualitative and quantitative methods like interviews and surveys while ensuring ethics like informed consent and confidentiality. A human ecological approach considers various internal and external influences on human development and sexual experiences.

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    Gender studies analyzes how gender and sexuality impact society and create inequalities. It emerged from feminism's challenge to male-centered knowledge and explores changing gender roles over history. Researchers use qualitative and quantitative methods like interviews and surveys while ensuring ethics like informed consent and confidentiality. A human ecological approach considers various internal and external influences on human development and sexual experiences.

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    Gender studies analyzes how gender and sexuality impact society and create inequalities. It emerged from feminism's challenge to male-centered knowledge and explores changing gender roles over history. Researchers use qualitative and quantitative methods like interviews and surveys while ensuring ethics like informed consent and confidentiality. A human ecological approach considers various internal and external influences on human development and sexual experiences.

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    GENDER AND SEXUALITY

    AS A SUBJECT OF INQUIRY
    Learning Objectives:
    At the end of the session, the learners are expected to:

    • Define gender studies;


    • Discuss its historical origins; and
    • Explain its importance in society.
    Introduction
    • Gender seems so obvious and so simple; many would ask why we
    have to study it. Well, gender studies as an area of knowledge, is
    about looking into, analyzing, and examining society so that we
    notice power relations in the seemingly "simple things". It helps us
    see the issues in our everyday lives through a different lens.
    • Gender studies emerged from the need to analyze how gender, sex,
    and sexuality impact our lives, especially how it creates gender
    inequality. It came about in the mid 1970's after the second wave of
    feminism as a way to challenge the male-defined and male-centered
    knowledge.
    • Gender studies is not just for women or all about women, it is
    about everyone. It explores how our gender roles have changed
    throughout our history and how it created inequalities.
    DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
    • Gender roles are socially constructed and are not something
    that we are born with. Society, through a lifelong process of
    normalization, encourages or reprimands behaviors to make a
    child adapt to these social expectations. LGBTQ people often do
    not fit in the traditional binary gender roles so they are often
    subjected to violence and hate just because they do not fit in
    what society calls “normal”.
    • Gender studies let us analyze the creation and maintenance
    of these gender norms so that it does not create inequalities
    in our social, political, and economic spheres.
    GENDER STUDIES AND RESEARCH
    • As a subject of inquiry, gender studies utilizes a systematic
    approach in identifying problems, making hypotheses and
    assumptions, gathering data, and making conclusions. This
    systematic process is referred to as the research process.
    APPROACHES IN RESEARCH
    • Qualitative approach focuses more on the meanings created and
    interpretations made by people about their own personal or
    vicarious (observed) experiences.
    • Phenomenology- conducting intensive interviews with individuals
    who have experienced a particular event and understanding their
    “lived experience”;
    • Hermeneutics-understanding the meaning of texts (literary works, art
    works) and what they convey about human realities; and
    • Ethnography and ethnomethodology- immersing in a community
    and taking note of their experiences, beliefs, attitudes and practices.
    APPROACHES IN RESEARCH

    • Quantitative approach on the other hand focuses more on characterizing


    a population (total number of individual in a group) or a sample (a sub-
    group within the population), and in some cases, making generalizations
    about the population based on the behavior of a sample. For instance, if
    you want to know how many Filipino adolescents are engaged in a
    romantic relationship or how many of them still believe in marriage, then a
    quantitative approach is appropriate. Some of the methods used in the
    quantitative approach are as follows:
    • Survey-collecting information from a sample; and
    • Experiment- creating actual set ups to observe behavior of people in an
    experimental group (a group receiving treatment such as training or a new
    experience) and comparing it to the behavior of people in a control group
    (a group without any treatment).
    APPROACHES IN RESEARCH
    • In most cases, information from both qualitative and
    quantitative approaches provide a holistic view about a certain
    social reality, such that there are researches who prefer to use
    mixed methods (combining qualitative and quantitative
    methods to derive data from multiple sources).
    ETHICS IN GENDER AND SEXUALITY
    RESEARCH
    • It is called ethical principles because they make sure the
    people involved in the research are protected from harm. The
    following are principles to remember:
    • Informed consent- Researchers should make sure that the
    participants in the study are aware of the purpose and
    processes of the study they are participating in.
    • Confidentiality and anonymity- Researchers should not reveal
    any information provided by the participants, much so, their
    identity to anyone who are not concerned with the study. All
    data gathered from surveys or interviews should also be placed
    in a secure location or filing system.
    ETHICS IN GENDER AND SEXUALITY
    RESEARCH
    • Non-maleficence and beneficence- a study should do no harm
    (non-maleficence) to anyone. Especially in researches involving
    humans, a study should be beneficial (beneficence) for it to be
    worth implementing.
    • Distributive justice- Any study should not disadvantage a
    particular group, especially the marginalized and oppressed. The
    benefits of a study should be for all.
    GENDER, SEXUALITY AND HUMAN
    ECOLOGY
    • Human ecology, as a field, recognizes the interplay among
    internal and external environments—physical, socio-economic,
    cultural. Hence, to look at realities from an ecological
    perspective is to appreciate that human development across
    lifespan is influenced by these environments. In the context of
    gender and sexuality, a human ecological approach looks at
    human sexual lives and experiences at various levels and
    spheres of analysis.
    Key Terms:
    • Gender studies- A field of study concerned about how reproductive
    roles are interpreted and negotiated in the society through gender.

    • Social Research- The process of investigating social realities.

    • Research approach- The orientation in understanding social realities.


    This can be qualitative, quantitative or both.

    • Ethics in research- These are considerations in conducting research


    to make sure that the well-being of the participants are ensured, and
    that the outcome of the study is sound without undue harm to
    people involved.
    Summary
    • Gender, being male or female, has socially constructed
    meanings, and it is different in every culture and may change
    with time. It is important to analyze how society enforce gender
    roles on everyone so we can further understand how power
    relations in gender roles can limit an individual freedom and
    promote inequality. To help us have a holistic view, we need to
    use frameworks and methods from different disciplines—
    psychology, sociology, medicine, and law—among others.
    Activity:
    • List down three questions which you want to be answered
    related to Gender and Sexuality. Explain why you want to answer
    these questions. Identify why you think these questions are
    within the scope of gender studies.

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