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Descriptor English: Gender Blind
Descriptor Spanish: Ceguera de Género
Descriptor ceguera de género
Entry term(s) ciego al género
Scope note: Ignorancia a las normas, roles y relaciones de género y muy a menudo refuerza la discriminación basada en el género. Al ignorar las diferencias en oportunidades y la asignación de recursos para mujeres y hombres, a menudo se asume que estas políticas son "justas" ya que pretenden tratar a todos de la misma manera. (Traducción libre del original: http://www.who.int/gender-equity-rights/knowledge/glossary/en/)
Descriptor Portuguese: Cegueira de Gênero
Descriptor French: Aveugles aux Questions de Genre
Entry term(s): Gender Blindness
Gender-Blind
Gender-Blindness
Tree number(s): SP3.311.750.480.300.277
Scope note: Behaviors that ignore gender norms, roles and relations and very often reinforces gender-based discrimination. By ignoring differences in opportunities and resource allocation for women and men, such policies are often assumed to be "fair" as they claim to treat everyone the same. (From: http://www.who.int/gender-equity-rights/knowledge/glossary/en/)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
History Note: 2019
DeCS ID: 57438
Unique ID: DDCS057438
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Gender Blind - Preferred
Concept UI FD00062132
Scope note Behaviors that ignore gender norms, roles and relations and very often reinforces gender-based discrimination. By ignoring differences in opportunities and resource allocation for women and men, such policies are often assumed to be "fair" as they claim to treat everyone the same. (From: http://www.who.int/gender-equity-rights/knowledge/glossary/en/)
Preferred term Gender Blind
Entry term(s) Gender Blindness
Gender-Blind
Gender-Blindness



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