Gendered assumptions and gender-based social discriminations exist throughout society, from organizational planning to the everyday interactions at the workplace. Negative impacts of such assumptions can undermine the efficiency and success of even the best-intentioned plans.
Gender sensitization training is the practical tool for analyzing gender relations and provides adequate information regarding major factors that influence and are responsible for maintaining or change the structure of gender relations. It is also a development intervention which aims at awareness, knowledge, skill and behavior in relation to gender. It concerns with developing skills, capacity to translate such awareness into very specific tools that can be used into practice.
Gender Sensitization is the process of changing the stereo type mindset of both men and women. Strong beliefs that men and women are unequal entities and hence have to function in different socio-economic spaces is prevalent in societies.
Gender sensitization increases the sensitivity of people at large towards women and their problems. In the process it creates a class of responsive functionaries at different level, from policy making to grass root level, who are convinced that any form of gender bias is an obstacle on the way of attaining and equitable social and economic order and therefore consider addressing gender related issues in their situation as a matter of priority. The School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics in conformation with UGC guidelines is committed as a center of higher education to further the envisioned objectives of rooting ideas of gender equity and creating awareness about nature and extent of sexual intolerance in the society. The Gender Sensitization Committee of the School comprising of faculty, students and representatives of the society takes consistent measures to imprint gender understanding and appropriate code of conduct and an overall evolved and inclusive outlook.
At the School we strongly believe that imparting education is the primary vocation of Universities but education goes far beyond textbooks. Educating students about respecting difference in gender, caste, religion and teaching them about the responsibility of adult relationships is also the purview of institutes of education. This can only be achieved proactively through dialogues, discussions, debates and interaction among students in an environment that is friendly, open, and non-threatening to all.