[1] Other effective gender-sensitive practices include providing the option of same gender clinician-patient pairing and awareness of gender-specific needs in regards to personal safety and privacy.
[6] Teachers who are successful at sensitizing their students to gender at a young age can influence a change in children's thought processes, which positions them to break societal stigmas in childhood and throughout life.
[8] A common phrase that is not gender sensitive and might be heard by young children through their parents is “boys will be boys.”[6] Other examples of non-gender-sensitive reinforcement of gender includes teaching children that pink is an objectively feminine color and blue is an objectively masculine color, as well as influencing young girls to play with dolls and boys to play with trucks.
[10] Such training programs typically provide information on topics such as gender inequality, stereotypes and stigmas, as well as gender-specific communication skills.
International collaboration towards developing standards for these training modules has helped to spur progress in gender sensitivity and equality, increasing quality of life and economic growth worldwide.
[11] Some training modalities for these programs include online modules and prerecorded media, in-person lectures and classroom settings, as well as workshops and other group activities.
Although countries in the African continent tend to struggle economically, there have been major strides in improving gender sensitivity in the region.
Countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are historically known to have poor gender sensitivity acceptance rates, despite their high economic standing.