PHILIPPINE COMMISSION ON WOMEN National Gender and Development Resource Program BASIC GAD Concepts PRE-TEST 1.
Level of knowledge on Basic GAD Concepts (please encircle) 1
2
3
4
5
(1 – lowest, 5 – highest)
2. Answer the following questions by encircling what you think is the correct answer. If your answer is false, write the correct answer in the space provided. QUESTIONS
1. Sex is socially determined and culturally defined.
IF FALSE, WHAT’S THE CORRECT ANSWER? TRUE FALSE
Gender or define Sex
2. Sex is constant across time, different societies and culture.
TRUE FALSE
3. Gender is a social construct.
TRUE FALSE
4. Gender is what we are born with and refers to physical attributes.
TRUE FALSE
Sex or define Gender
5. The family reinforces gender stereotypes and sex-based
TRUE FALSE
Media
TRUE FALSE
Participate and contribute to development
discrimination through the gender insensitive portrayal of women and men.
6. GAD is an approach to or paradigm of development that focuses on how differently women and men participate only in development.
7. Gender stereotyping is assigning particular traits, characteristics
TRUE FALSE
and roles distinctly to men and women.
8. Marginalization is where women’s contributions to development
TRUE FALSE
remain unrecognized or undervalued.
9. Gender roles are deep-seated in the culture, as well as, in the belief and value systems of the society, therefore they cannot be
TRUE FALSE
Gender roles can be
changed.
10. Social institutions reinforce social values that men and women are not only different but also not equal. TOTAL NUMBER OF CORRECT ANSWERS
Basic GAD Concepts Pre-test
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changed TRUE FALSE