How has the South African government conceptualised gender?: an evaluation of the draft strategic framework on gender and women's empowerment

• Main Author: Ndlovu, Innocencia Sithandazile
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 2011
• Subjects: Sex discrimination against women > South Africa; Women in development > South Africa; Equality > South Africa
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1011856

The research seeks to evaluate how the South African government has conceptualised gender through the use of the concepts of WID and GAD. This research has been conducted through the analysis of the Draft Strategic Framework on Gender and Women's Empowerment a document of the Department of Trade and Industry that was formulated to address and redress the issues of gender equality. It has some sound suggestions that seek to identify strategies to improve women empowerment through financial independence. As a result they have used various approaches in order to provide strategies that are mindful of the „needs‟ of the women. Accordingly they have formulated a policy that understands who these women are and have made recommendations of strategies that different groups of women can identify with. They have included the marginalised rural and disabled women and even gone as far as catering for younger women still at school. However there has been concern at the impact that the exclusion of men has contributed, therefore it is important to find ways in which to make men more involved.