Civic education GENDER EQUALITY 8 GROUP WORK Split up into groups and follow the instructions. 9 Think of some generalised view about the characteristics or roles that are thought to be typical of women and men O R D W S Speak about the expression gender equality and try to agree about a definition Think about how gender equality can be promoted Read the following and comment with your class. Then comment on the image below. Countries with grammatical gender languages were found to reach lower levels of social gender equality than countries with natural gender languages or genderless languages. Apart from pronouns, also nouns, adjectives, and images may reinforce some stereotypes. Professions and occupations are often gender stereotyped. 10 O R D W S Complete the text with the missing grammatical words. Valuing Gender and Equity in the Global Health Workforce Women account 1. ....................................... 67% of the global health and social care workforce. It is estimated that women provide essential health services for around 5 billion people worldwide.The financial value of women s input into health systems is estimated 2. ....................................... be over US$3 trillion annually. Yet, women s contributions to health and the health labour market remain markedly undervalued. Women in health tend to be clustered into lower status, low paid, 3. ....................................... often unpaid roles. Sustainable development needs to better value women s contributions to population s physical, social, and mental wellbeing. Equity issues pertaining to decent work free 11 346 WORK 4. ............................................ all forms of discrimination, harassment, including sexual harassment; gender pay gap; occupational segregation by gender and leadership are important for all the 194 member states to address 5. ....................................... the 15 million health worker shortfall to achieve Universal Health Care is to 6. ....................................... redressed in 7. ....................................... equitable, inclusive, and sustainable way. Gender equity is key to building resilient health systems, and gender transformative health and social care policies 8. ....................................... key to achieving gender equality globally. Adapted from: https://www.who.int/activities/ value-gender-and-equity-in-the-global-healthworkforce#:~:text=Women%20account%20for%2067%25%20 of,over%20US%243%20trillion%20annually. Write an article for a magazine with the following title: March 8 is International Women s Day. It s a time to celebrate women s achievements, demand equality, and ght for basic rights and freedom.