GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT; DOES EQUALITY MATTER?
By Ateh Thomson Pepeah Hon. Attempted, Mezam Central constituency, Cameroon. According to UNESCO, the term gender refers to the socially and culturally constructed meanings and roles assigned to persons of different biological sexes: males and females. The concept also includes the expectations held about the characteristics, aptitudes and behaviors of […]
Gendering Agriculture
Women spearhead efforts to feed the continent By: Nirit Ben-Ari Do land, seeds and crops have a gender? Perhaps they do in sub-Saharan Africa, where women produce up to 80% of foodstuffs for household consumption and sale in local markets, according to a report by the World Bank and the […]