Gender-responsiveness: A Must for All Schools
One of the missions of the Department of Education is to provide learners with a gender- sensitive environment. When we speak of gender sensitivity, it simply means the changing of behavior ascribed by culture and society and imbibing the proper attitude and empathy into the perspectives, ideas and principles that we hold on to on our own and to other genders. The Department of Education issued through its DepEd Order No. 32, s. 2017 the Gender-Responsive Basic Education Policy (GRBE) in line with its Gender and Development (GAD) mandate as stipulated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution, Republic Act No. 9710 or the Magna Carta of Women, RA 10533 or the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013, and the Philippines’ International Human Rights and Commitments to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the Convention on the Right...