GenderLens

See beyond stereotypes. Choose equality.

An interactive field guide to gender, power, and the ordinary decisions that make a campus more equal — written for Filipino college students.

Start exploring Try a real-life case

7 chapters 6 decisions 18 quiz questions

A passenger jeepney on a Philippine street, with houses and a hillside behind it.
A Gender and Society final integration project See the seven chapters · How it was made

Equality begins with understanding.

Gender is not a small topic reserved for one chapter of one course. It is in who is asked to take the minutes, who is believed when something happens, who is encouraged to lead, and who is expected to adjust.

GenderLens gives you the language to notice those patterns, the evidence to test the excuses used to defend them, and a place to practise what you would actually do. The goal is not to memorize definitions. It is to leave with a different reflex.

Why we made this

Several people stacking their hands together in a circle.

What you can learn, in seven chapters.

Start with the vocabulary, test it against real situations, then check what Philippine law actually says. Each chapter is short enough to finish in one sitting and useful enough to return to.

  1. 01 Understanding gender Sex, identity, expression, orientation, roles, stereotypes, equity, power, and SOGIESC. 12 ideas
  2. 02 Real-life decisions Six branching cases: a class chat, a group project, a student org, a commute, a comment thread, a promotion. 6 cases
  3. 03 Know your rights Six Philippine laws, plain-language summaries, remedies, and the myths that surround them. 6 laws
  4. 04 Equality and inclusion Leadership, education, IT and STEM, work, LGBTQIA+ inclusion, respectful speech, and bystander action. 9 topics
  5. 05 Knowledge challenge Eighteen questions on concepts, law, and application. Immediate explanations, no personal data. 18 questions
  6. 06 Take action Everyday steps, language that includes, safe intervention, support, and a pledge you keep. 7 steps
  7. 07 About the project Objectives, method, references, credits, and the one-page academic paper. Paper

Three ideas that travel.

From the guide

Sex is not gender, and neither is a binary.

Sex describes biological characteristics. Gender describes the roles and meanings we attach to them. Once you separate the two, the argument that inequality is “natural” loses its floor.

Read the concept

Equality needs equity to become real.

Treating unequal situations identically can preserve the inequality. Childcare, accessible buildings, and flexible deadlines are not advantages; they are the conditions that let people compete.

See the difference

Power is exercised in ordinary rooms.

Patriarchy is not an abstract conspiracy. It is the meeting where the man is assumed to be in charge, the family that protects the son's tuition first, the comment that polices a skirt.

Trace the pattern

Equality, equity, liberation

support
Same supportOne step each. The shorter person still cannot reach the line.
Tailored supportThe step is placed where the barrier is highest. Both reach the line.
Barrier removedNo one needs a step to see over a fence that should not be there.

Equity is not a permanent advantage. It is a correction for a barrier that was built into the starting line.

What would you do?

A screenshot from a private party is posted in your class group chat with a crude caption. People are laughing. She has not replied.

This is a fictional composite drawn from the first decision case. Names and details are invented.

Open all six cases
BSIT 3-A · Capstone 42 members · 11:42 PM
Jomarlol look at this from last night
Jomar[photo of a classmate at a party]
Beahahahaha

You are in the chat. What do you do?

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