Gender and Development refers to the development perspective and process that are participatory and empowering, equitable, sustainable, free from violence, respectful of human rights, supportive of self-determination and actualization of human potentials.
Source: Magna Carta of Women (Republic Act No. 9710)
What is Sex?
A person's biological characteristics, including chromosomes, reproductive organs, and hormone levels. It is assigned to a person during birth.
Sex is constant across time, societies and cultures.
What is Gender?
Gender is a social construct that refers to the characteristics, behaviors, and identities of people, and how they are perceived and interact with each other. It's different from sex, which is a set of biological attributes.
Gender varies across societies, cultures, classes, ages, and historical periods. It's influenced by a society's understanding of masculinity and femininity, and can change over time. Gender roles and norms are the cultural expectations and perceptions about how people of a certain gender should behave.
- Gender is a learned behavior.
- Gender changes with time.
- Gender can be performed by both sexes.
Gender in Transporation Infrastructure
- Traveling is mostly dictated by employment.
- More men are involved in vehicular accidents.
- Traveling is done mostly during off-peak hours.
- Women have less access to cars and therefore use public transportation more.
- Women have less opportunity to be employed in the fields of construction and infrastructure maintenance.
