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Gender equality

Women are still subordinated to men. Women and femininity are seen as less valuable and inferior to men and the masculine. This leads to discrimination and oppression. Subordination of women and inequality between the sexes is a structural phenomenon as it is recurrent at all levels in society: politics, economy, work, family, sexuality, culture etcetera. Diakonia also include other groups who are oppressed, discriminated or stigmatized due to their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.

Men’s violence against women and sexual abuse of women is the most drastic mechanism to uphold the gender order. A group that has been particularly exposed to gender based discrimination and violence are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, as well as people living with HIV and/or AIDS.
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Gender manual

Diakonia has developed a Gender Manual. This is directed to our partner organizations and others, who wish to evaluate how the gender perspective has been incorporated into the structures and everyday work of the organization.

The manual is divided into three parts, free for download and should be adapted to local environment:

Concepts and methods (1,4 MB) 

Workshop leaders's guide (1,5 MB)

Participants' guide (1,4 MB)

 


 

 

Zongo Zalif from Burkina Faso. Photo: Foto: Robban Andersson.

Mens' contribution to the work for equality are important in order to make society more just. With increased equality the level of poverty decreases. On the photo you see Zongo Zalif from Burkina Faso. Photo: Robban Andersson.

 

Guideline to enhance diversity

A guideline provides Diakonia and our partners with practical guidance on how to put our policy into practice. It describes briefly Diakonia’s priorities for gender equality mainstreaming and strategies of work.

Download Diakonia's guideline on gender equality - to enhance diversity

 

In order to read PDF-files you need the software Adobe Reader. This can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe:
To the Adobe web site

 

Revised
03/08/2006 Mirjam Dahlgren mirjam.dahlgren@diakonia.se
Diakonia P O Box 14038, SE-167 14 Bromma, SWEDEN
Bank Account 90 33 04-4 (Plusgiro)

Phone: +46 8 453 69 00
Fax: +46 8 453 69 29
diakonia@diakonia.se
Visiting address: Gustavslundsvägen 18, Alviks torg, Bromma, Sweden (head office)
Org. nr: 802017-3517

Diakonia is an international development organization with Christian values that works together with local partner organizations for sustainable change for the most vulnerable people in the world.

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