Gender integration

Gender integration refers to the many tactics that various groups of people implement in order to consider gender norms in society. There is a natural difference between male and female that manifests itself if not managed. These natural gender differences have forced the development of integrating measures. Failure to consider gender integration may have far-reaching and far-reaching consequences for persons in society. The differences have an impact on people's democratic beliefs and may lead to gender discrimination in the community, resulting in poor gender performance in workplaces, among other things (Matthews, 2009). Therefore, gender integration is a critical factor of consideration for the well-being of the society.

Naturally, men tend to be over the women in the society if the condition is not controlled. Gender integration concept plays a significant role in curbing the gender differences in the community. Gender integration plays a critical role in the process of encouraging a free gender-equal society, thus, eliminating the effects that arise from the gender differences (Govender & Penn-Kekana, 2007). Therefore, it is clear that the gender integration practices usually aim to improve the position of women in the society to increase their social status as compared to men. Most gender integration programs target at boosting the women's position in the community (Heinecken, 2016).

Gender balance remains to be one of the significant aspects of concern in the society. This report focusses on the concept of gender integration in the community. The paper presents gender analysis aspects in the nation and explicitly discusses how the equality has been accomplished. It establishes the various existing approaches that place as a way to encourage gender integration in the world. Further, the research confirms the various effects of gender integration on mission readiness. Therefore, it is reported is essential in reducing the gender imbalance issues in the society as a way to achieve equality in the community. Besides, the paper is vital in bringing out the various effects of gender integration on the mission readiness.

The main aims of gender integration

The gender integration methodologies have various objectives in the society. The approaches usually have broad goals of promotion of awareness of gender roles and the norms, a factor that significantly reduces the gender difference factors in the society. They also target to support the women's position in the nation as compared to that of men. The approaches make use of different kinds of support to ensure that the women also take a higher position in the society. These methods are mainly driven by the fact that the nation has placed men at a more elevated position than the women and thus, they tend to target the lifting of the woman's position in the nation (Wijk & Finchilescu, 2008).

Besides, the gender integration strategies focus on challenging the imbalance of the power distribution in the society, how the various resources are distributed and the way the duties and responsibilities have been distributed with the various groups of people in the world. Additionally, the gender integration strategies always encourage the women’s empowerment approaches through a focus on the women’s empowerment approaches. Therefore, these aims indicate that the gender integration methods target to lift the position of the woman in the society to encourage equality.



How Gender Integration has been achieved in the Society

Currently, the society has depicted a lot of efforts to encourage gender equality in the community. The intention is to motivate both the male and the female by reducing the gender discrimination and its associated issues, a factor that in turn increases people’s productivity (Shepard, 2015). Thus, gender integration has the primary focus of creating equality which helps the world to enjoy its benefits and also escape the adverse effects that are associated with the inequality in the society. The various groups of people have embraced the best strategies that discourage gender balance and encourages more integration in work. The military group forms one of the major team that always need to reap the benefits of gender integration in the world due to its nature.

The methodologies employed to encourage gender integration are mainly driven by the findings from gender analysis which reveals the existing societal differences between the genders. The study systematically establishes the various norms and roles in the society and the differences regarding the power that they hold. Also, the analysis reveals the opportunity differences that exist in the nation between the two types of gender in the community through monitoring them. These differences in practices and their implication between the male and the female provide a clear guide on the approaches that should be put in place to improve the gender integration (Cohn, 2000).

Broadly, the gender integration can be viewed as social activities that have been implemented through various ways with the main target of achieving a gender balance to curb the implications brought about by the gender inequalities. It includes the planned actions in different specific scenarios in the society. It also entails the various legislations, the procedures and the programs that encourage gender integration usually guided by the findings from the gender analysis. Besides, the gender integration approaches provide the strategies that are used to conduct a continuous monitoring of the integration aspects of the society.

Steps towards Achieving Gender Integration

The gender integration in the society has been accomplished mainly through the combination of frameworks to curb the existing sexual role difference issues. The idea has been implemented through a precise definition of the steps that guide the nations, the companies and other groups of people to manage the gender differences in the society. The framework is applied in all the activities to ensure that all the projects or exercises are done with a consideration of gender sensitivity. Thus, the roadmap is essential to guide both the countries, companies, groups and the specific individuals to minimize the gender differences (Howard, 2013). The steps can be summed up into the identification of the planning, designing, implementation and the management, the monitoring and evaluation and than then, finally the reports.

The first step in gender integration framework is the identification of the gender focal point points in the country, the organization or any other group. The various gender principal points are critical in the process of curbing gender inequalities in the society. The stage helps to take the attention and a focus on the key aspects of gender integration and usually entails the capacity building of the people involved in various ways towards the mission. Capacity building is a significant preliminary aspect towards gender integration. The approach defines the goals and the key areas that must be considered in the endeavour. Therefore, the magnitude of the plan necessitates the need for completeness of the exercise to ensure that all the organization's gender focal points are captured.

When all the gender focal points have been identified, the next stage towards the gender integration is to build the plans for gender analysis in the society. Gender integration can only be achieved by the process of gender analysis. The examination established the various inequalities within the lives of people that have been created or brought about by gender differences. The findings of the gender analysis study are critical for the building of the subsequent steps in the integration process. The process of gender analysis must be done in the most efficient way possible to ensure that the findings are accurate and are an accurate representation of the state of gender equality within the organization, the nation or the entire society.

The outcomes of the gender analysis process are utilized to produce the budget or the resource allocation of the exercise, which forms the next stage towards the gender integration. When a given nation or a country decides to conduct the gender integration exercise, there must be sufficient funds that are set aside for the course of the process. For example, the U.S army group has shown efforts towards the implementation of the gender integration in the society. In its plan, the state has decided to allocate money towards achieving the course to support all the gender-insensitive issues within the group. Funds and other resources drive every activity towards the success of the course (Rice et al., 1984). Therefore, the implementation is done at this stage, and all the essential activities that support the mission are funded.

The next in towards the gender integration is the incorporation of the gender-related objectives and other indicators into the performance. Setting more goals ensures that the state or any implementer becomes more specific for the effectiveness towards implementing gender integration. The performance evaluation and monitoring form one of the critical aspects that helps the organization, the nations and other groups of people in the society to attain a gender balance. The concept avails the implementer with a chance to measure the progress of the exercise (Worthen et al., 2015). This, in turn, provides an opportunity to correct or improve where necessary just within the time frame. Therefore, they give a chance to ensure the quality of the exercise towards the gender sensitivity.

Reporting forms another step that is important in the process of gender integration in the society. The state must continuously find a way to observe the progress of the performance of the strategies that were employed. Usually, they offer a presentation of the condition of the gender integration in the society. The implementer also considers the various aspects that directly contribute towards the elimination of the gender inequality in the nation. In some cases, the implementer is forced to come up with strategies that are more specific and much suiting to a given environment of focus. It is essential to ensure that all the plans that are being used have a significant effectiveness towards the gender integration process (Woodruff & Kelty, 2015). Also, the implementers make efforts towards putting the strategies in place that attract assistance from other people or groups. The support is essential especially for the resource provision and the meeting of the financial needs.

Therefore, the above discussion reveals that gender integration is achieved through a step by step process implementation framework. The various parts that partake in the gender integration process include the stat, the organisations and the groups who take the role of implementing the exercise. When the nations choose to apply the concept, they usually take up the responsibility of education or informing all the companies, groups or individuals to collectively implement the gender equality practices in the society (Sassona-Levy & Amrama-Katz, 2007). The communal effort is combined to form a stable force that performs gender sensitizing throughout the nation. The most notable areas of gender integration in the community have been observed in the army or military groups, where both the men and female work together as a team.

How Gender Integration affects the Mission Readiness

The mission readiness refers to the long-term process through a mission service, covering all the period and the activities during the given assignment and post evaluation activities after the endeavour. The concept of the mission readiness is highly pronounced within the armed forces groups of the various nations. Both the male and the female are expected to undertake similar roles within the team. However, the natural gender differences continuously affect the performance of the people in the society. The gender integration forms one of the major influencing factors on the mission readiness in the society. It has both the positive the native impacts on the mission readiness depending on the integration level attained within a given team.

Firstly, the gender integration has been on the forefront to influence how people feel about the mission. A poorly integrated gender environment forces to feel more masculine. In cases where there are few females among the male, the female tends to feel masculinity. This is evidenced by an examination that was conducted to examine the gender integration in South African navy ships. In the case, both the male and the female armies performed same tasks within the ships as their duty. It was revealed that the females in the team had to appear more masculine to survive in the environment (Wijk & Finchilescu, 2008). Therefore, this brings out the effect of gender integration in the society.

The gender integration creates stereotypes that affect the performance level of people in the mission. A poorly integrated gender mission suffers from the lowered performance of the females within the team unlike that which does not gender inequality issues. In most cases, it has been established that many believe that the male performs well then the females in most cases of the mission. The notion has significantly affected the degree of performance of the different genders in the mission. For example, a study conducted in the Texas A & M Corps of Cadets to establish the effects of gender integration revealed that the officers believed that the men always perform better than the female in the mission. It was found that the belief had a significant effect on the performance of the women within the team. However, it is clear that the sex does not have any impact on the performance of the officers, but the problems arose from the gender stereotypes (Boldry et al., 2001).

Also, gender integration has an impact on the member’s training in the mission. It is difficult to expose both the male and the female to similar training practices in the army. The gender differences have lowered the standards of the females within the team. These factors have the effects that hamper the freedom and the equality between both the genders of the society. It has been established that the women receive a low-quality education during the training for the mission, a factor that significantly impacts on the performance of the mission. The females tend to receive some form of special treatment, which affects their performance. Therefore, the gender integration has the impact on the training level of the females in the mission.

The gender integration affects the leadership opportunity distribution within the team in the mission. Many cases reveal the leadership imbalance between the male and the female in the society. In an environment where the gender is poorly integrated, most senior positions have been taken up by the male gender, leaving most females at lower positions. However, a strong gender integrated environment depicts characteristics of equality in the leadership of the society. In such a case, all the military leadership have been distributed equally to all the people in the group. A case in the South Africa's military brings out an example case that has a better-integrated gender framework (Heinecken, 2016).

Besides, the degree of gender integration can create the effect of job discriminations. In some cases where there exists gender discrimination, there is a subsequent job discrimination within the group. For example, poor gender integration can lead to discrimination to make the men wok on the tasks that seem difficult while the females consider handling those that are not difficult. Therefore, such form of job discrimination affects the team's effectiveness on the mission.



Conclusion

In conclusion, gender integration forms one of the critical aspects of consideration in the society. Its primary focus is to establish equality between both the male and the female. If not controlled, it is clear that the natural differences between the male and the female tend to take form creating issues between the man and the female. The concept aims at promoting the gender awareness and equality between the male and the female targeting to reap the benefits that come about from a balanced gender society. Therefore, it significantly reduces the gender differences increasing the cohesion and the integration between the two genders.

The gender integration is achieved in the society through an application of a framework that seeks to introduce and sustain the strategic activities that have a positive impact on the gender integration. The frame provides a guide for the nations, organizations and various groups of people to successfully conduct practices that are likely to improve gender integration in the society. The main steps employed to achieve gender integration mainly focusses on the various policies to be set in place as a way to overcome the challenges. It defines the procedures that implementers can adopt to attain gender equality in the society. The framework also provides monitoring and evaluation strategy and offers the ways of reporting on the progress. Therefore, the structure provides a critical guideline towards achieving of the gender-balanced society.

Also, it has been established that the degree of gender integration within the teams has a significant impact on the mission. In most cases, a poorly integrated gender society usually creates adverse effects on the purpose, unlike a strongly integrated team. The military group forms one of the major groups that have missions affected by the gender integration concepts. Therefore, the gender equality is a significant aspect of consideration in the military society.









































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