Having a course on Gender and Development has provoked me to think why has it been incorporated in our curriculum?
Given a chance we blabber so much about gender equality, but in practice just the reverse happens. We harp about development in states like Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, etc but forget to look at their pathetic sex ratio. Can we call these steps as developed ones. Should our yardstick be only economic development and not social development?
Perhaps to build our perspective on these issues we have this course.
SHASHVAT SINGH (30044)
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You are probably right about the perspective building thing :).
On a serious note...the low sex ratio of these relatively well off states which have higher literacy and better means have proved one thing that only education doesn't ensure good social behaviour. One has to be informed and sensitive issues because if one is educated but insensitive to these issues s/he will do more harm than n uneducated person.
I agree that having gender and development course in curriculum will help us in building our perspective on such issue. But along with this when we have discussions in class on such an issue we get to know other’s perspective also. It is important to have your own perspective but knowing others is equally important .As then only we can draw a complete picture. And some time it helps us to understand such sensitive issues in a better manner.
I believe that studying a course like Gender and Development is absolutely essential for IRMANs. According to me, "Rural development" can be effective when the policies made and their implementation is gender neutral.
If we take the GAD course in the right spirit, it can be of great help in reflecting upon our own mental constructs about gender and how it has been shaped by various social and cultural forces over a period of time.
sanju(30038)
The GAD course is one of the most important courses in our curriculum, just like CAC; not just because both these courses wake us up to ground realities, but more so because they bring out the real 'us' in classroom discussions, when we inevitably witness the very basic instincts and ideas of our own colleagues and friends. These courses hit us head-on, where it hurts us the most. They make us sit up and notice, introspect, and possibly, even change our views and mindsets. And this is perhaps one reason why they make up such amazing learning experiences.[30093]
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