What is a gendered lens?

Applying a gender lens to civic engagement programs and materials means that those making content and curriculum decisions view those programs and materials with particular attention to gender imbalances or biases in what is being presented.

What are women’s gender roles?

Gender roles in society means how we’re expected to act, speak, dress, groom, and conduct ourselves based upon our assigned sex. For example, girls and women are generally expected to dress in typically feminine ways and be polite, accommodating, and nurturing.

What is the role of gender in feminism?

Feminists claim that gender stereotypes serve to uphold patriarchy and place boundaries upon women’s lives. This serves the interests of men because it links female self-worth with external beauty rather than actual achievement.

What are gendered perspectives?

The gender perspective looks at the impact of gender on people’s opportunities, social roles and interactions. Gender relations are accordingly defined as the specific mechanisms whereby different cultures determine the functions and responsibilities of each sex.

What are the three main gender perspectives?

We can examine issues of gender, sex, sexual orientation, and sexuality through the three major sociological perspectives: functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. How does feminist theory address both both micro and macrosociological approaches?

What is the difference between the feminist lens and gender lens?

Both the feminist lens and the gender lens are very broad, but the definition can also be narrowed down to fit a smaller perspective for reading both “Hunger Games” and “Divergent”. The feminist criticism lens views how “women characters are portrayed, exposing the patriarchal ideology implicit in the so called classics” (Murfin).

How can the media use a gender-based lens?

Applying a gender-based lens is a common topic in the women’s rights circle but the media barely uses this lens. Development practitioners can help the media cover all stories in a way that is representative of the lives and experiences of all gender identities. Gender should certainly be everyone’s agenda.

How did we look at the books through a feminist lens?

We looked through the feminist lens in a way where we looked at women and what their roles were in the books (pretty much the same as the actual lens). There were many women characters to pay attention to, but the main two were Katniss Everdeen in “Hunger Games” and Tris in “Divergent”.

What is an operational gender lens for research?

A gender lens for research and surveying can be routinely used in data collection. ) This operational gender lens often has these characteristics: It is a list of questions, a checklist or a list of criteria. It is routinely used (see above examples). It is created in a participatory manner by those who will use it.