Gender Sensitization and Educational Institutions

Men and women are like wheels of a bicycle. For any society to develop in all aspects it’s important to take into consideration both men and women. For spreading awareness regarding gender issues gender sensitization is the new term being used by the social thinkers and activists. Gender Sensitization is spreading awareness and modifying the behavior of the individual towards gender, to bring revolutionary change in society by transforming the mind-set of the individuals by eradicating the stereotype thinking and practices and developing a concern of the society towards the gender issues. Education is always considered as a powerful tool for bringing any change in society. Teachers play an important role in modifying the attitudes of their students towards gender issues. Positive attitude needs to be created with the elimination of the negative thoughts towards objects, people, activities, events, or ideas. It is due to the personal belief and stereotype thinking that individual pertain in their mind from childhood. The teacher can shape the mind-set of the students by creating a positive ideology towards gender. The transformation or empowerment will only come when there is awareness of gender sensitivity in the minds of the youth. This paper is an attempt to find out the role that a teacher plays in creating an affective attitude and commitment towards gender sensitive environment in a student’s life.