POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON 'GENDER SENSITISATION'

DATE: 13 August 2022 (Saturday)
TIME: 10AM (MYT)
PLATFORM: Webex

This three-hour workshop aims to unpack participants’ understanding of gender, examining the social processes which have contributed to their gendered worldview. Participants discuss on the ways their gendered worldview have impacted their beliefs and actions, and they explore the potential ways these gendered perspectives can be challenged. This workshop is optional and is open to presenters and participants.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The conference registration fee is not inclusive of the fee for this workshop.

'Gender Sensitisation' Post-Conference Workshop: Text

POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP TRAINER

MS. SABRINA MELISSA ARIPEN

President, Society for Equality, Respect and Trust for All (SERATA), Sabah

Sabrina began her journey in gender issues in 2010, when she organised a campaign to raise awareness about domestic violence. Since then, she has worked with several women’s rights organisations, advocating for the rights of women and children. In 2017, she was selected as a fellow for a US Exchange Program - the 2017 Community Solutions Program where she spent four months to work with the host organisation Paid Leave for the US (PL+US) to campaign for paid parental leave for all working people in the US.

In 2018, the NGO that Sabrina founded, the Society for Equality, Respect and Trust for All Sabah (SERATA) was officially registered to work on dismantling long-held socially constructed gender roles and promote gender equality by engaging men and boys in partnership with women and girls through their programmes and training.

Through SERATA, Sabrina has written several articles championing the role of fathers in families, linking this to increasing the women 's representation in the workforce and beyond. She also writes about how gender equality is urgently needed for economic prosperity, while decreasing incidences of gender based violence (GBV).

Sabrina is currently pursuing her PhD from University of Malaya, focusing her research on fathering in Sabah.

'Gender Sensitisation' Post-Conference Workshop: Speakers