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Research data: GENDER EQUALITY
2014 Women in selected rural municipalities: resilience and agency against vulnerabilities to climate change
The role of rural women in eradicating poverty and ending hunger has been recognised by both scholars and practitioners. There is an acknowl...
2014 Engendering change: attitudes towards women in politics in South Africa
A United Nations Millennium Project report in 2005 argued that women in office were more likely to advocate for legislation and policy that ...
Download this report2013 School resources and the gender reading literacy gap in South African schools
The importance of reading literacy as a foundation for academic success is widely acknowledged. What is less well understood is why gender p...
2012 The gender politics of the school uniform
This chapter draws on memory work as well as on fieldwork in contemporary South African high schools in order to investigate the significanc...