Building Gender Sensitivity

The Necessity of Gender Topics in Kerala s Higher Secondary curriculum

Abstract

“Gender equality is a pillar of a strong and sustainable society (UNDP, 2015)”. Our country needs to take more effort to attain Sustainable Development Goals For Quality Education and for Gender Equality. Gender related topics in higher secondary curriculum helps to create a more equitable society with clear gender perspectives among students and solve problems through gender lens. Education has an important role to maintain gender justice in society as it is not only a medium to transfer knowledge but also to transfer values including gender as a social construct. Gender studies in higher education is the need of the hour. The main objective of this study is to find out is there any gap in the higher secondary curriculum which hinder to create the feeling of gender equality and also to find out is there any need for gender related topics in higher secondary as a separate paper in which the subjects are designed to be given separately or integrated with other subjects. This research is quantitative in nature and based on survey method conducted in 120 Higher Secondary School students. The data were obtained from students using questionnaire.