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Aphane, M., Dzivakwi, R. & Jacobs, P. (2010) Livelihood strategies of rural women in Eastern Cape and Limpopo. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 84:64-72.
This analysis of new household data collected in rural Limpopo and the Eastern Cape of South Africa reveals that structural inequalities exist between men and women: many rural women might be better educated than men, but they remain at the bottom of the rural social pyramid. This is evidenced by their limited access to farm and non-farm assets as well as household spending levels below common...
Bentley, K. & Brookes, H. (2005) The great leap sideways: gender, culture and rights after 10 years of demcracy in South Africa. Agenda: empowering women for gender equity. Special focus:2-13.
Bentley, K. (2003) Whose right it is anyway? equality, culture and conflicts of rights in South Africa. (Democracy & Governance Research Programme, Occasional Paper 4). Cape Town: HSRC Publishers.
The contemporary debate between liberalism and multiculturalism is often cast in the mould of a conflict between the rights of individuals and the cultural claims of groups. In modern liberal democracies, the state has to negotiate between these two frequently incompatible claims, and formulate policy and legislation in such a way that is both sensitive to the claims of groups, while still prot...
Bentley, K.A. (2006) The role of the chapter 9 institutions in the promotion and protection of gender equality in South Africa. (Paper presented at the Gender Mainstreaming Seminar, UCT Law Faculty, 29 March).
Bhana, A., Zimmerman, R. & Cupp, P. (2008) Gender role attitudes and sexual risk among adolescents in South Africa. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies. 3(2):112-119.
Adolescents remain the most critical group to target for reducing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, as most infections occur during this period. However, given that the rates of HIV infection continue to rise, South African youth would appear to be unable to protect themselves as well as they should. Gender role attitudes have been implicated in adolescent boys having multiple par...
Bhana, A., Zimmerman, R., Cupp, P. & Feist-Price, S. (2007) Gender role attitudes and sexual risk. (Paper presented at the 8th AIDS Impact International Conference on Biopsychosocial Aspects of HIV Infection, Marseille, France, 1-4 July).
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Breier, M. & Wildschut, A. (2008) Changing gender profile of medical schools in South Africa. South African Medical Journal. 98(7):557-560.
Background. Since 1994, higher education policy has been committed to equity of access for all, irrespective of race and gender. Objectives. We investigated progress towards these goals in the education of medical doctors, with an emphasis on gender. Methods. Databases from the Department of Education (DoE), Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and University of Cape Town (UCT)...
Chirowodza, A., Van Rooyen, H., Richter, L. & Coates, T. (2009) Gendered constructions of HIV risk in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (Paper presented at the 4th South African AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa, 31 March - 4 April).
Chisholm, L. & Moletsane, R. (2009) Conclusion. In: Chisholm, L., Haupt, I., Hoadley, U., Lewin, T., Mawoyo, M., Moletsane, R. & Moorosi, P. Gender, identity and institutional culture: women students' constructions of success at three South African universities. Pretoria: Department of Education. 75-80.
Chisholm, L., Hoadley, U., Lewin, T., Moletsane, R., Haupt, I., Mawoyo, M. & Moorosi, P. (2007) Gender, success and institutional culture. (Prepared for the Carnegie-SA scholarship programme, August).
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Chisholm, L. & September, J. (eds). (2005) Gender equity in South African education 1994-2004: conference proceedings. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
In the sphere of gender equity, much has changed in South Africa since 1994, and much has remained the same. The immediate post-apartheid period saw both the assertion of women as equal partners in all aspects of daily life and, on the one hand, increasing social and familial violence against women and girls as well as, on the other, continuing high levels of unemployment and poverty amongst wo...
Chisholm, L. (2003) Gender equality and Curriculum 2005. (Presented at University of London Institute of Education Seminar: Beyond Access: Curriculum for Gender Equality and Quality Basic Education in Schools, London, United Kingdom, 16 September).
This paper looks first at policy for gender equality in South African education and argues that despite the monumental work of the Gender Equity Task Team in 1996, and commitments by the national department in this regard, policy for the achievement of gender equity is not supported by authority or resources. What exists is the inscription of gender within broader policy frameworks and legislat...
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Cloete, A. (2011) The invention of "moffie" life in Cape Town South Africa. (Paper presented at the Conference: Traditions II: Everyday Lives of African Men: Programme on Traditions and Transformation: Changing Traditions, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 28-30 November).
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Cloete, A., Simbayi, L.C., Clayford, M., Arnolds, W., Mxoli, M., Strebel, A., Kalichman, S.C., Cherry, C., Crawford, M., Kalichman, M.O. & Shefer, T. (2008) Intervening to reduce gender-based violence does not enhance HIV risk reduction outcomes for South African men: results of a quasi-experimental field trial. (Paper presented at the AIDS Conference, Mexico City, 6 August).
Background: There is a well documented association between violence against women and HIV transmission. Interventions that integrate HIV prevention with gender-based violence prevention may demonstrate synergistic effects. Aim of study: The current study tested the effects of a community-based HIV/gender-based violence prevention intervention targeted to South African men. Methods: A quasi-ex...
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Cross, C. (2009) Urbanization & women's economic exclusion. (Paper presented to the Conference on Gender and Poverty Reduction, 13-15 October).
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Diko, N. (2007) Changes and continuities: implementation of gender equality in a South African high school. Africa Today. 54(1):107-116.
Drimie, S. (2004) Education and health services (including HIV/AIDS and gender). (Final report and recommendations delivered at the State of the Farmer Conference, 17-19 August, Lilongwe).
Dugard, J. & Mohlakoana, N. (2009) More work for women: a rights-based analysis of women's access to basic services in South Africa. South African Journal on Human Rights. 25(3):546-572.
South Africa has a commendable legislative and policy framework for basic services that explicitly recognises historic disadvantage, including gender. Yet, as explored in this article, inadequate access to water and electricity services has a disproportionately negative effect on women. This is because there is a sexual division of labour within most households meaning that, in addition to typi...
Gqamane, V. (2009) Review: the millennium development goals report, 2009. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 81:155-157.
This review examines the concerns raised in the report on the MDG that relates to gender empowerment. The report notes that this goal is not only important in its own right, but also interlinked with poverty, hunger, access to education and health as well as human development goals, such as political representation and participation by women, It raises the problem that cultural stereotypes ha...
Hart, T. (2008) The ignorance of gender in agrarian livelihoods in rural South Africa. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 78:144-155.
Haupt, I. & Chisholm, L. (2009) Negotiating social and gender identity: the worldwiew of women students at the University of Pretoria. In: Chisholm, L., Haupt, I., Hoadley, U., Lewin, T., Mawoyo, M., Moletsane, R. & Moorosi, P. Gender, identity and institutional culture: women students' constructions of success at three South African universities. Pretoria: Department of Education. 47-59.
Hemson, C. (2006) Teacher education and the challenge of diversity in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
Conflicts in schools over race, fees or language frequently make headlines in South Africa. Such conflicts reflect the multifaceted issue of learner diversity, encompassing racial, class, gender, religious, linguistic, physical and other differences. The need to handle such differences in equitable ways poses new challenges for teachers and teacher education. How are teacher education institut...
Heugh, K. (2011) Discourses from without, discourses from within: women, feminism and voice in Africa. Current Issues in Language Planning. 12(1):89-104.
Discourses of development, education, gender, feminism and critical linguistics arrive in Africa from usually well-meaning but often opportunistic agents from other contemporary socio-political and economic contexts. Each of these forms a new layer that veils the earlier discourses and practices. Simultaneously, people in Africa are (re-)positioned as inarticulate; without literacy, literary tr...
Kahn, M. (2005) A class act - mathematics as filter of equity in South Africa's schools. Perspectives in education. 23(3):139-148.
This article explores the way that educational disadvantage and opportunity became manifest in the South African school system by tracking performance in the gateway subject of Mathematics (and to a lesser extent Physical Science). Previous research by the author showed how it was possible to use a proxy method to track redress in the absence of official data on group. For the school data from ...
Kanjee, A. & Povey, J. (2008) Methodological challenges in measuring progress towards millennium development goals 2 and 3 in South Africa: draft report. (March).
Khosa, M.M. (2000) Social impact assessment of development projects. In Infrastructure mandates for change 1994-1999. , Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. 213-236.
This chapter presents the findings of a social impact assessment of sixty-eight projects funded by the Development Bank of southern Africa in the 1996-97 financial year.
Leclerc-Madlala, S. (2008) Global struggles, local contexts: prospects for a southern African AIDS feminism. In: Foller, M.J. & Thorn, H. (eds). The politics of AIDS: globalization, the state and civil society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 141-155.
The need to accelerate the global struggle against patriarchy and its system of endorsing male privilege while promoting female vulnerability is perhaps nowhere more clearly evinced than in Southern Africa today. At every stage of the HIV epidemic women in Southern Africa are disproportionably infected and affected by the disease.
Magni, S. & Reddy, V. (2007) Performative queer identities: masculinities and public bathroom usage. Sexualities. 10(2):229-242.
This article critically examines the interface of gender, sex and identity within the context of bathroom facilities in a South African gay club. The public features and behaviors are contrasted with the bathrooms' private and abstract zones in terms of sexualized spaces and activities. The club's bathrooms function as spatial and physical discourses in which gender stability - with reference...
Maphunye, K. (2006) Towards redressing historical inequities?: gender balancing in the South African civil service. Public management review. 8(2):297-311.
This article examines women's positions at senior management levels of South Africa's civil service given its affirmative action policy that attempts to tackle women's historical marginalization in public sector organizations. It examines `women's empowerment?, gender and race inside the public service within the context of South Africa's historical inequities within the civil service, and t...
Maphunye, K. Men, take a stand. Mail & Guardian. 35. (20 August 2004)
As we celebrate 10 years of our democracy, we cannot escape the fact that many women and children find it difficult to make sense of such celebrations because they continually face the grim reality of gender-based violence.
Mawoyo, M. & Hoadley, U. (2009) Social and academic integration of young women at the University of Cape Town. In: Chisholm, L., Haupt, I., Hoadley, U., Lewin, T., Mawoyo, M., Moletsane, R. & Moorosi, P. Gender, identity and institutional culture: women students' constructions of success at three South African universities. Pretoria: Department of Education. 61-74.
Mokomane, Z. (2011) Book review: Bradby, H. & Hundt, G.L. (eds). 2010. Global perspectives on war, gender and health: the sociology and anthropology of suffering. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing. 157 p. ISBN 9780754675235. Journal of International Women's Studies. 12(1):194-195.
Moletsane, R., Reddy, V., Ntombela, S., Dayal, H., Wiebesiek, L., Munthree, C., Kongolo, M. & Masilela, T. (2010) Gender and poverty reduction: voice, dialogue and targeting. (Commissioned by Department of Science and Technology's (DST) Unit on Technology for Social Impact).
This study examined the gendered dimensions of poverty in South Africa and their implications for poverty reduction interventions in South Africa. The study identifies and analyses national approaches to understanding and addressing poverty and their integration of gender. It also identifies and analyses approaches to understanding and addressing poverty and their integration of gender in three...
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Moletsane, R. & Ntombela, S. (2010) Gender and rurality in southern African contexts: an introduction. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 84:4-8.
There is arguably a strong link between poverty and the lived experiences of women and girls, particularly those in rural areas. This is exacerbated by gender inequalities and the social status of women in these communities, which prescribe how individuals and groups negotiate their daily interactions. As the contributions in this issue of Agenda illustrate, boys and girls growing up and men an...
Moletsane, R. (2009) Review: calling for feminist solidarity, vigilance and accountability in the fight against gender equality in contemporary South Africa. Ruiters, G. (ed.) 2008. Gender activism: perspectives on the South African transition, institutional culture and everyday life. Grahamstown: Rhodes University Institute of Social and Economic Research. Feminist Africa. 13:137-140.
Moletsane, R. & Reddy, V. (2008) Report: an assessment of the participation of women in set industry for Department of Science and Technology. (Commissioned by NACI, October).
Persistent gender imbalances in the workplace, but particularly in the Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) sector continue to impact negatively on South Africa's global competitiveness in growing and sustaining its economy, particularly its knowledge economy. One of the major challenges confronting post-apartheid South Africa is that of delivering increased economic growth, wealth creatio...
Morrell, R., Epstein, D., Unterhalter, E., Bhana, D. & Moletsane, R. (2009) Towards gender equality: South African schools during the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Scottsvillle: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
Since the democratic elections in 1994, there have been concerted efforts to redress race and gender inequalities in South Africa. Learners and teachers have responded in their own ways to change and this nuanced analysis reveals their struggles to realise gender equality by living gender differently. In distinguishing short-term interventions to change behaviour from institutional approaches,...
Motala, S. (2010) Giving realisation to the 'right to food'. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 86:307.
The right to food is a fundamental human right enshrined in international law. Evidence suggests that there has been little progress towards achieving this right. This introduction to this special issue explores the meaning of this right and, based on available evidence, suggests that to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty, a necessary precondition is that gender equality...
Naidoo, D. (2010) Book review: Reddy, V., Sandfort, T., Rispel, L. (eds). 2009. From social silence to social science: same-sex sexuality, HIV & AIDS and gender in South Africa: conference proceedings. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 252 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7969-2276-2. Sahara J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 7(2):85-86.
Naidoo, D. (2009) Review: world economic and social survey 2009: promoting development, saving the planet. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 81:152-154.
The World Economic and Social Survey 2009 is informative about the growing global climate change crisis. However, in order for us to fully understand the implications of adaptation measures for all people involved, it is necessary that all members of adapting regions, both men and women, are fully represented in climate change planning and governance processes.
Ndinda, C., Uzodike, U.O., Chimbwete, C. & Mgeyana, M.T.M. (2011) Gendered perceptions of sexual behaviour in rural South Africa. International Journal of Family Medicine. April:Online.
This paper discusses sexual behaviour findings collected through eleven homogenous focus group discussions conducted among women and men in a predominantly Zulu population in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The objective of this paper is to shed light on sexual behaviour in a rural community. The findings suggest that sex is a taboo subject and the discussion around it is concealed in the...
Ntombela, S. (2009) Review: progress of the world's women 2008/2009 who answers to women? gender and accountability. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 81:148-151.
This review seeks to highlight the important issues in UNIFEM's latest report Progress of the World's Women 2008/2009 Who answers to women? Gender and accountability. The report places a large part of responsibility for women's progress, and the lack thereof, on those who hold responsibility, the bearers of power.
Petros, G., Airhihenbuwa, C.O., Simbayi, L., Ramlagan, S. & Brown, B. (2006) HIV/AIDS and 'othering' in South Africa: the blame goes on. Culture, health & sexuality. 8(1):67-77.
Potgieter, C. (2007) The participatory gender audit of the Biotechnology Regional Innovation Centres (BRICS): final report. (Prepared for Biopad, CapeBio, SAASTA, Lifelab, NBN, Plantbio).
Potgieter, C. (2006) Masculine bodies, feminine symbols: challenging gendered identities or compulsory femininity?. Agenda: empowering women for gender equity. 67:116-127.
Potgieter, C.A. & Reddy, V. (2006) Gender mainstreaming: a research ethics issue?. (Paper presented tot the Ethics Committee on Gender Mainstreaming, 2 June).
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Potgieter, C.A. (2006) Gender, development and transport in rural South Africa: methodological, policy and implementation challenges. (Paper presented at the Gender, Transport and Development Gender, Transport and Development Conference, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, 27-30 August).
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Pthouse-Morgan, K. & Reddy, V. (2010) Lipstick & HIV/AIDS prevention. HSRC Review. 8(4):26-27.
Globally, experts agree that gender equality is critical to effective HIV prevention. However, despite some pockets of success, efforts to advance gender equality in the context of HIV prevention have been hindered by a range of factors. Then enters a cosmetics house, and a unique project gets on the road. KATHLEEN PITHOUSE-MORGAN and VASU REDDY et al. tell us more.
Reddy, V., Munthree, C. & Wiebesiek, L. (2010) Rural women, HIV and human rights abuses in South Africa: a critical review. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 84:26-36.
A theme that reflects rural women's experiences is appropriately captured in an Amnesty International (AI) report titled "I am at the lowest end of all": Rural women living with HIV face human rights abuses in South Africa (2008). The study reported in the publication, undertaken in two provinces, namely Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, examines patterns of human rights abuses of women who are ...
Reddy, V., Sandfort, T. & Rispel, L. (eds). (2009) From social silence to social science: same-sex sexuality, HIV & AIDS and gender in South Africa: conference proceedings. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
This book presents a unique and innovative effort to examine what we know about homosexual transmission of HIV and AIDS in South Africa. It reverses the trend whereby categories of same sex sexual practice are almost always excluded from research of HIV and AIDS, as well as from care and intervention programmes. The varied contributors (academics, activists and programme planners) draw attentio...
Reddy, V. & Moletsane, R. (2009) The gendered dimensions of food security in South Africa: a review of the literature. (March).
The study establishes that interventions addressing food insecurity in its gendered context imply that women are playing key roles in households and that to meet the food gaps, a combination of factors need to be employed by women and girls that must be supported by the policy framework. Consequently, gender needs to be more strongly foregrounded as a feature of the policy framework; more tar...
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Reddy, V., Sandfort, T. & Rispel, L. (2009) Introduction. In: Reddy, V., Sandfort, T. & Rispel, L. (eds). From social silence to social science: same-sex sexuality, HIV & AIDS and gender in South Africa: conference proceedings. Cape Town: HSRC Press. xi-xxxiii.
Reddy, V. & Cakata, Z. (2007) 'Even animals of the same sex don't take this route': politics, rights and identity about same-sex marriage in South Africa. Sexuality in Africa. 4(1):1-4.
Reddy, V. (2007) The same-sex marriage complex in South Africa: some conceptual, gendered and rights-based interpretations. (Paper presented at a one-day workshop, "Is same-sex marriage ethical?", Unilever Ethics Centre, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg).
Reddy, V. (2006) Dedication to Ronald Louw. Agenda: empowering women for gender equity. 67:3.
Sandfort, T., Reddy, V. & Rispel, L. (2009) Taking research and prevention forward. In: Reddy, V., Sandfort, T. & Rispel, L. (eds). From social silence to social science: same-sex sexuality, HIV & AIDS and gender in South Africa: conference proceedings. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 228-241.
In this conclusion the authors briefly summarise what is known about same-sex sexuality in the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic. Based on the perspectives contained in the various chapters, they outline what the next steps should be and address ethical aspects and issues of relevance.
Sanger, N. (2010) 'The real problems need to be fixed first': public discourses on sexuality and gender in South Africa. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 83:114-125.
An underlying premise of a 'democracy' is that a sense of well-being exists for the individuals who make up that democracy. In South Africa the more popular meaning of a developing democracy is a Constitution that protects people from discrimination on the basis of, among other factors, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, class and religion. Despite this progressive Constitution, t...
Sanger, N. & Hadland, A. (2009) Challenging patriarchal scripts?: a gender analysis of South Africa's community print media. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 77:4-17.
There are an estimated 100 community print media titles in South Africa, none of which are regulated by the Press Ombudsman. Instead, as none are members of Print Media South Africa (PMSA), they fall under the auspices of the Films and Publications Act. Different ethnical standards, including those concerned with gender discrimination, apply therefore to the mainstream as opposed to the commu...
Sanger, N. (2008) 'Shutting up the crazies': reflections on feminists, whiteness, intellectuals and black aliens inside and outside the academy. (Paper presented for Colloquium in Honour of Professor Teresa Barnes: Transforming Higher Education and Knowledge Production since 1994: Perspectives in 2008, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, 30-31 May).
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Sanger, N. (2008) 'There's got to be a man in there': reading intersections between gender, race and sexuality in South African magazines. African Identities. 6(3):275-291.
The aim of this article is to interrogate the ways that compulsory heteropatriarchy establishes women's representation as hyper(hetero)sexual in a select group of South African mainstream magazines. In men's magazines targeting both black and white male readers, women are depicted as objects for an unnamed and unmarked, but clearly, masculine audience. In contrast, women's magazines with a dom...
Sanger, N. (2008) Contemplating possible assumptions in the 50/50 debate: how do we envision women in legislated positions representing women?. (Paper presented at the seminar: 50/50 Bill for all Levels of Government - Legislated Quotas as a Reality: Is South Africa Ready?, The Centre for the Book, Cape Town, 9 July).
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Sanger, N. (2008) Engendering the national gender machinery. New Agenda. 29:58-61.
The focus of this article is to consider how the national gender machinery (NGM) - a set of integrated structures meant to promote gender equality, proposed in the South African Policy Framework for Women's Empowerment and Gender equality - is currently operating within the state, and how these operations affect the attainment of gender equality outside of the state.
Sanger, N. (2008) Unnamed men and available women: connecting the popular, the personal and the political in racialised hyperheterosexual representations of women in South African magazines. (Paper presented to Rosa Luxembourg Annual Seminar, The Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Rhodes University, 8-9 March).
The aim of this presentation is to reflect on the linkages between the popular, the personal and the political. I do this through interrogating the ways that compulsory heteropatriarchy establishes women's representation as hyperheterosexual for an unnamed and unmarked, but clearly, masculine audience in a select group of mainstream magazines. Using a feminist methodology foregrounding the inte...
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Sanger, N. (2007) Institutional mechanisms in place to support gender equality. (Paper presented at the 2007 Women's Month Seminar, Parliament, Cape Town, 27 August).
Sanger, N. (2007) Magazine editors, objectivity and neutrality. Gender & Media Diversity Journal. 3:104-112.
This paper explores notions of objectivity, neutrality and the 'political' in the views of South African magazine editors, and how these views relate to their representations of gender and sexuality. It argues, from a feminist poststructuralist position, that the insistence on the objectivity and neutrality of their publications is in sharp contrast to the ways in which a political position is...
Sanger, N. (2007) Performing heteromasculinities in South African men's magazines. (Paper presented at the "Taking a hard look: Gender and Visual Culture" Conference, Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, University of Pretoria, 20-21 June).
Sanger, N. (2006) Feminist intellectual activism: within and beyond the academy: constructions of 'whiteness', gender and sexuality in South African magazines.
This presentation aims to explore the ways in which whiteness, gender and sexuality are represented through a select group of South African magazines. By looking at magazines such as Men?s Health, GQ, FHM, True Love, Femina and Fair Lady, I intend to explore how these magazines as a medium of communication construct whiteness, gender and sexuality to their imagined readerships constituted of va...
Shefer, T., Crawford, M., Strebel, A., Simbayi, L.C., Dwadwa-Henda, N., Cloete, A., Kaufman, M.R. & Kalichman, S.C. (2008) Gender, power and resistance to change among two communities in the Western Cape, South Africa. Feminism & Psychology. 18(2):157-182.
This study investigates how women and men in the Western Cape, South Africa, construct their gender identities and roles. As part of the development of an HIV prevention intervention for men, key informant interviews and focus group discussions were conducted. Several themes regarding the construction of gender were identified. First, participants reported that traditional gender relations o...
Shisana, O., Rice, K., Zungu, N. & Zuma, K. (2010) Gender and poverty in South Africa in the era of HIV/AIDS: a quantitative study. Journal of Women's Health. 19(1):39-46.
BACKGROUND: Recent research identifies gender inequality as a driver of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The feminization of poverty is also increasingly apparent, as is the disproportionate vulnerability of members of female-headed households. We sought to examine the relationships among sex, gender, age, HIV status, and socioeconomic characteristics, focusing on heads and nonheads of households. METHOD...
Shisana, O. & Davids, A. (2004) Correcting gender inequalities is central to controlling HIV/AIDS. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 82(11):812.
Steyn, C. & Kotze, H. (2004) Work value change in South Africa between 1995 and 2001: race, gender and occupations compared. South African journal of labour relations. 28(1):4-33.
This article aims to describe the value shift in South Africa in greater detail, with specific reference to the nature, direction and distribution of the value shift among the various social categories as defined by race, gender and occupational level. The study attempted to provide recommendations to inform future workplace policy and practice in South Africa with regard to expected changes i...
Strebel, A., Crawford, M., Shefer, T., Cloete, A., Henda, N., Kaufman, M., Simbayi, L., Magome, K. & Kalichman, S. (2006) Social constructions of gender roles, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS in two communities of the Western Cape, South Africa. Sahara J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 3(3):516-528.
The links between gender roles, gender-based violence and HIV/aids risks are complex and culturally specific. In this qualitative study we investigated women in men in two black communalities in the Western Cape, South Africa, constructed their gender identities and roles, how they understood gender-based violence, and what they believed about the links between gender relations and HIV risk. ...
Todes, A. (2007) Including gender in integrated development plans: past experiences and future possibilities. (Paper presented to the Trade Conferences International Conference on Integrated Development Planning, Johannesburg, 23 April).
Todes, A., Sithole, P. & Williamson, A. (2007) Local government, gender and integrated development planning. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
Since 1994, local government in South Africa has become more important than ever before. It has been described as the 'hands and feet' of government, and is expected to play a key role in development. But to what extent does local government support women's empowerment and gender equity? Do integrated development plans (IDPs), which give strategic direction to the work of a municipality, ben...
Todes, A., Sithole, P. & Williamson, A. (2007) Women, decentralisation and integrated development planning in South Africa: final results report. (Commissioned by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, March).
Todes, A., Sithole, P. & Williamson, A. (2006) Gender, decentralisation and integrated development planning in South Africa. (Paper presented tot the FLACSO and IDRC Global Workshop on Women's Rights and Decentralisation, 27-31 August, Buenos Aires).
Tshabalala, X. (2010) Book review: Pillay, U., Tomlinson, R., Bass, O. (eds) 2009. Development and dreams: the urban legacy of the 2010 Football World Cup. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 328 p. ISBN: 978-07969-2250-2. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 85:149-153.
Wassenaar, D.R., Barsdorf, N.W. & Richter, L.M. (2005) Gender and HIV vaccine trials: ethics and social science issues. Harvard health policy review. 6(1):124-130.
Wildschut, A. (2008) Engendering gender equality in professional employment: can policy rise to the occasion?. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 78:93-104.
Women are increasingly accessing employment areas even in traditionally male-dominated fields like medicine, but they struggle to participate to the same extent as their male counterparts, constraining their potential for advancement. As an example of the constraints women face within formal employment, there is clear evidence of gender differences in specialisation, when the literature on gend...
Wildschut, A.C. (2008) Motivating for a gendered analysis of trends within South African medical schools and the profession. South African Journal of Higher Education. 22(4):920-932.
In South Africa, in the prestigious profession of medicine, women are still in the minority. Men continue to form nearly three quarters of the number of registered practitioners, although social and institutional exclusionary structures have been abolished. It is important to investigate the reasons underlying this state of affairs, which exists despite equality in access to educational oppor...
Williamson, A., Sithole, P. & Todes, A. (2006) Gender and integrated development planning: eThekwini. (Paper presented at the eThekwini Workshop, eThekwini Municipality, 3 October).
Williamson, A., Sithole, P. & Todes, A. (2006) Gender and integrated development planning: Hibiscus Coast. (Paper presented at the Hibiscus Coast Workshop, St. Michael Sands Hotel, 13 October).
Williamson, A., Sithole, P. & Todes, A. (2006) Women and integrated development planning: provincial presentation. (Paper presented at a Provincial Workshop, Riverside Hotel, Durban, 23 October).