GENDER COMMITTEE

Gender socialization of both boys and girls begins early and it is important to initiate change processes at a young age to shape attitudes and transform behaviors. Schools and colleges play a major role in this regard, because students spend large amounts of time engaged with peers in such settings. Creating positive social norms in educational institutions that value girls and their rights is important to improve the well-being of girls and achieve long-term and sustainable social change. In order to promote gender equality, guaranteed by Article 15 of the Indian Constitution, we need to change the mode of interaction at all levels – home, school, workplace and so on. To increase the outreach for creating an environment that fosters equal treatment, Government of India envisages engagement of Gender Champions in all schools and colleges across the country. Gender Champions can be any student above 16 years of age enrolled in educational institutions. It is a joint initiative of the Ministry of women and Child Development and Ministry of Human Resource Development.

GENDER CHAMPION COMMITTEE

Gender Champion committee has been constituted to increase the outreach for creating an environment that fosters equal treatment in Dr.Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth University campus. The members of committee will provide overall guidance and support on various aspects of activity implementation.

Vision

·  Gender Champions are envisaged as responsible leaders who will facilitate an enabling environment within their educational institutions, where girls are treated with dignity and respect.

·  They will strengthen the potential of young girls and boys to advocate for gender equality and monitor progress towards gender justice.

Objectives

·  To provide an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to understand the social and cultural constructions of gender that shape the experiences of women and men in society.

·  To make the young boys and girls gender sensitive and create positive social norms that value the girls and their rights.

·  To understand the concept in which women and men enjoy the same opportunities, rights and obligations in all spheres of life.

·  To provide guidance to bring about all individual change in the minds of young generation especially male to respect females through the medium of discussion, seminar, workshop etc.

·  To apprise about the equality of women and men with regard to political representation and participation.

·  To organize seminar, workshops, conferences to awaken interests amongst population for our community become safer for females.