Gender

In dealing with hierarchical versus egalitarian gender relationship the Southeast Asian context has often been singled as gender-equity prone, despite its highly hierarchized societies, due to the matrifocal and/or bilateral kinship characterizing many of its ethnic groups. Today, we see ceaseless transformation of local structures as a consequence of both social transformation and political and religious international dialogue. A converging moral attitude on gender is common to Southeast Asian countries and policies.

The research enquires further into gender awareness as it takes shape in localities partly through local feminisms, partly through mediatized sexual minorities issues and the relative movements, partly through modern global discourses of equality and economic opportunity.