culturally relevant gender based analysis: a tool

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culturally relevant gender based analysis a
tool

• Aboriginal Experiences in Aging Symposium
• Saskatoon, SK SEPT2008

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What is GBA?

• Gender Based Analysis identifies the differential
  impacts of policy on gender, and provides options
  to create more equitable outcomes

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Equity vs. Equality

• Gender Equality means that women and men are
  treated equally and enjoy the same status
• Gender Equity moves beyond the importance of
  equal treatment to focus on equality of results.

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Why Cultural Relevance?

• There is a need to move beyond gender and
  conventional GBA to incorporate Indigenous
  worldview and promote cultural continuity
• There is a need to examine gendered Aboriginal
  identity and how the dominant cultures imposed
  beliefs have shaped gender, and our cultural,
  economic, social, and political status in society
• There is a need to look at the underlying factors
  behind Aboriginal womens consistently poor
  health

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Impacts

• Poverty
• Educational barriers
• Violence against Aboriginal women
• Lack of accountability
• Environment and connections to the land
• Loss of Identity

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How are the Impacts Perpetuated?

• Social exclusion as a social determinant of
  health
• Systemic Discrimination
• Gendered Racism
• Lateral Violence
• How do we overcome the impacts of social
  exclusion?

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Crgba Principle 1

• Revitalize the value of Aboriginal womens roles
  within Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal society and
  reconnect race and gender to positively impact
  health and healing

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• It is not solely my gender through which I first
  experience the world it is my culture that
  precedes my gender. Actually if I am the object
  of some form of discrimination, it is very
  difficult for me to separate what happens to me
  because of my gender and what happens to me
  because of my race and culture. My world is not
  experienced in a linear and compartmentalized
  way. I experience the world simultaneously as
  Mohawk and as woman. To artificially separate
  my gender from my race and culture forces me to
  deny the way I experience the world. Such denial
  has devastating effects on Aboriginal
  constructions of reality.

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Crgba Principle 2

• Embrace Aboriginal culture and the principles of
  balance and equilibrium, with gender being one
  component of balance.

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Crgba Principle 3

• Comply with the laws of the Creator and
  Aboriginal world view and law, inherent right,
  Constitution, and International law

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Crgba Principle 4

• Capture diversity and different circumstances of
  Aboriginal women based on their distinctive
  cultures and cultural practices

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THANK YOU.

• Native Womens Association of Canada