Write 10 points on gender equality
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1) The term gender refers to the economic, social and cultural attributes and opportunities associated with being male or female.
2) In most societies, being a man or a woman is not simply a matter of different biological and physical characteristics.
3) Men and women face different expectations about how they should dress, behave or work.
4) Relations between men and women, whether in the family, the workplace or the public sphere, also reflect understandings of the talents, characteristics and behaviour appropriate to women and to men.
5) Gender thus differs from sex in that it is social and cultural in nature rather than biological.
6) Gender attributes and characteristics, encompassing, inter alia, the roles that men and women play and the expectations placed upon them, vary widely among societies and change over time.
7) But the fact that gender attributes are socially constructed means that they are also amenable to change in ways that can make a society more just and equitable.
8) Gender equity is the process of being fair to women and men.
9) Gender equality requires equal enjoyment by women and men of socially-valued goods, opportunities, resources and rewards.
10) Gender equality does not mean that men and women become the same; only that access to opportunities and life changes is neither dependent on, nor constrained by, their sex.