Table 1 Gender as a power relation and driver of inequality
What constitutes gendered power relations | |
Who has what? | Access to resources (education, information, skills, income, employment, services, benefits, time, space, social capital etc.) |
Who does what? | Division of labour within and beyond the household and everyday practices |
How are values defined? | Social norms, ideologies, beliefs and perceptions |
Who decides? | Rules and decision-making (both formal and informal) |
How power is negotiated and changed | |
Individual/People | Critical consciousness, acknowledgement/lack of acknowledgment, agency/apathy, interests, historical and lived experiences, resistance or violence |
Structural/Environment | Legal and policy status, institutionalisation within planning and programs, funding, accountability mechanisms |