Title: Moving beyond sex and gender
Course: Introduction to gender-based analysis plus GBA+ > Section: Module 2

Now that you have a foundational understanding of intersectionality, you may be wondering how these ideas can be applied to your work. GBA+ is an intersectional approach and isn’t an extra step, or extra work. Instead, GBA+ is an entry point that can help you reflect on peoples’ multiple identity factors, and how that may impact their experiences with government initiatives.

By applying an intersectional approach through GBA+ we will:

  Be aware of our own intersecting identity factors, and advantages and disadvantages

- What are your assumptions and unconscious biases? Where have you learned them (e.g. family values, community, education)?

  Break down stereotypes and reveal the diversity and multiplicity of identity factors within different groups

  Understand that each person’s identity is composed of multiple factors that intersect and impact their lives and experiences

 Identify the environmental factors (e.g. social and systemic) that impact an individual based on their intersecting identity factors

  Distinguish gender issues from women’s issues

  Consider how multiple identity factors may limit peoples’ access to programs and services

  Acknowledge that not all individuals identify with binary gender categories of male/man and female/woman, nor do all individuals identify with their birth-assigned sex

SWC has developed a job-aid to help you begin to include intersectional considerations in your GBA+.