Orientation Game Design

Contest to promote gender

awareness

Gender? What is it?

What do you think? Agree or

disagree?
What determines your views about the above
sentences?
Your own value judgment?
Your teachers and parents teaching?
The cultural tradition?

Are women and men

born to be different?

Sex vs. Gender

What is Sex?

Biological differences between females and males

What is Sex?
Examples:
Female have XX chromosome, while males have XY
chromosome
Females have vagina, while males have penis
Females could bear babies

What is Gender?
Socio-cultural differences between women and men
the roles (mother/father, husband/wife)
characteristics (values, personality traits, behaviours,
attitudes and interests)
in different societal institutions (the family, schools,
workplaces and governments).

What is Gender?
When you say that you are a
man/woman, what are you actually
implying?
What should be your job?
Should you be a nurse?

What should be your hobbies?

Should you go rock-climbing?

What should be your character?

Should you be emotional?

What should your wear?

Should you wear pink?

What is Gender?
Gender roles and characteristics:
learned and transmitted through socialisation;
changeable over time; and
have wide variations both within and between societies and
cultures.

Socialisation of Gender
Socialisation is the process which an individual
acquire, through interaction with other people,
the knowledge about various attitudes, values,
behaviours, roles, social and cultural skills
It is the process which we become selfconscious, knowledgeable and skillful so that
we could live our lives under a specific
environment.
This process is at work continuously through
all phases of our lives, especially when we
move in a new environment.

Socialisation of Gender
During the socialisation process, the following parties
play an important part in shaping your concepts about
gender :

Family
Friends
School Education
Working Environment
Media

Socialisation of Gender
Think about the following: What is the meaning of your name?
Who tells you what kind of toys you should
have for your birthday?
Why did you choose your major subject in
University?
Why are you assigned your tasks at the
Christmas party at your workplace?
Who tells you what body figure you should
have?

Myths and Facts about Gender

Myth:
Women are weaker than men.

Fact:
Leg strength relative to the individuals lean
body weight is equal for men and women
Men have faster neuro-muscular response
time: great force production
Women have a greater portion of shored
elastic energy than men during activities in
which muscle is pre-stretched, e.g. counter
movement prior to jumping.

Myths and Facts about Gender

Myth:
After getting married, women do not need to
work.

Fact:
In Hong Kong, women constitutes 44% of the
labour force. Their labour participation rate is
52%.
Of those people who are heavily involved in
housework, 80% were women.
Women homemakers spent 6.8 hours a day on
housework, women with dual role spent 3 hours,
while men spent 1.1 hours on average.

Myths and Facts about Gender

Myth:

Women are worse in decision-maker than men.

Fact:

In the HKSAR Government, women constitutes 7

among the 17 Permanent Secretaries, the most senior
officials in the civil service,.
In the administrative officers grade, which is a corps of
multi-skilled professional administrators who form the
backbone of the government's policy, 53.4 % were
women.
Of all the top/ senior management positions in private
and non-government sector in Hong Kong, women are
now holding about a quarter (26%) of them.

What is Gender Stereotyping?

Gender Stereotyping emerges when pre-conceived ideas
about one sex are applied indiscriminately without
considering any personal, social and cultural factors.
For example:
"Men are aggressive while women are emotional".