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22 paź 2014 · The UNESCO report on Gender Equality, Heritage and Creativity demonstrates the need to enhance debate, research and awareness-raising regarding equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities for women and men, girls and boys in the areas of heritage and creativity.
Culture affects variation in gender-related behaviors between individuals within a cultural group as well as variation between cultures. Culture can maximize, minimize, or even eliminate gender differences in social behaviors and cognitions.
The previous Council Work Plan for Culture for the period 2019-2022, recognizes that gender equality is a pillar of cultural diversity and has a key role to play in challenging stereotypes and promoting societal change.
People follow the gender norms of their culture, society or group, the boundaries of which are usually blurry. People follow the social norms of their reference group, the boundaries of which are usually fairly defined. Changing gender norms requires changing institutions and power dynamics.
The ACT urges policy makers in the cultural field to mainstream gender equality in their policies and practices in the cultural field, with particular regards to creation, artistic and intellectual production, and to dissemination of arts and culture.
Sociologists have turned to culture to explain a variety of findings about gender that persist even as consciousness about structural discrimination and inequality has been raised and discussed. Indeed, there appears to be a core aspect of gender which is culturally, rather than biologically or structurally, determined.
26 sty 2017 · Culture can be defined as the systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people. Gender aspects are relevant both in relation to the broad definition of culture as a ‘social construction’ and to the way in which cultural policy is designed and implemented.
