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GAD News:
GAD Conference August 4-6th, 2008
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2007 Conference: Migratory Labor & Human Trafficking- Bangkok
Click here for more information on last year's annual GAD conference. For more pictures click the image above.  Thanks to everyone who helped make this so successful. Good luck on your projects!
 
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Migratory Labor Conference in Udon Thani
Click here to get a debriefing on our ''Migratory Work and Trafficking Issues in Upper Issan’ mini-conference held in Udon Thani on February 23-24th, 2007.

 
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118 GAD Team Click here for more information about last year's GAD team and how to join the crew!

 
 
 
 
    
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Welcome to GAD
 

The Gender and Development (GAD) Committee is one of Peace Corps' Global Initiative Groups (GIGs) which is active at the Peace Corps Thailand post.

Our purpose is to educate volunteers about gender-related issues and to provide them and their Thai counterparts with relevant materials to help promote gender equality in their schools and communities.

   
GAD Terminology
 
Gender: The differences between men and women within the same household and within the same cultures, which are socially and culturally constructed over time. These differences are reflected in roles, responsibilities, access to resources, constraints, opportunities, needs, perceptions, view, etc. held by women and men. Thus gender is not a synonym for women, but considers both women and men in their interdependent relationships.
 
Sex: The biological characteristics of being male and female, which are genetically determined.
 
Gender Mainstreaming: Gender Mainstreaming a gender perspective is the process of assessing the implication for men and women of any planned action-- including legislation, policies or programs-- in all areas and at all levels. It is a strategy for making women's as well as men's concerns and experiences and integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of policies and programmers in all political and societal spheres so that inequality is not perpetuated. While the ultimate goal of gender mainstreaming is is to achieve gender equality, it does not exclude positive measures to narrow and close the gender gap.
   
What is Gender Equality?*
   
  • NOT about having same number of men and women in all spheres & activities;
  • NOT about treating men & woman exactly the same;
  • Different behaviors, aspirations and needs of women & men are considered and valued equally;
  • their rights, opportunities and responsibilities will not depend on whether they are born male or female;
  • free to develop their personal skills and make choices without limitations set by stereotypes, rigid gender roles and bias.
  • women and men can live equally fulfilling lives
*courtesy of UNESCO, Gender Issues in Education