Assessment of staff members' understanding of gender mainstreaming and contribution to gender equality : Ministry of Gender Equality, Namibia

Abstract

............................................................................................................................... ix 1 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Background Information ........................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Political Administrative Situation ........................................................................................... 2 1.3 Socio-Economic Situation ..................................................................................................... 2 1.4 Women’s Status and Role .................................................................................................... 3 1.5 Cultural Aspects of Gender Inequalities ................................................................................ 3 1.6 The National Gender Machinery ........................................................................................... 4 1.7 Mechanism for incorporating the gender perspective ............................................................ 8 1.8 Research Problem ................................................................................................................ 9 1.9 Research objective .......................................................................................................... 9 1.10 Main and sub Research Questions .................................................................................. 9 2 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW .......................................................................................10 2.1 Definition of gender mainstreaming .....................................................................................10 2.2 The importance of gender mainstreaming ............................................................................12 2.3 Gender Equality ...................................................................................................................13 2.4 Principles of Gender Equality ...............................................................................................13 3 CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ...........................................................................19 3.1 Study Area ...........................................................................................................................19 3.2 Research strategy ...............................................................................................................21 3.3 Sample selection .................................................................................................................21 3.4 Data analysis .......................................................................................................................22 3.4.1 Limitations ...............................................................................................................22 4 CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS ...........................................................................................................23 4.1 Educational Background of the respondents ........................................................................25 4.2 Key informants .....................................................................................................................26 4.3 Understanding of Gender Mainstreaming ............................................................................27 4.4 Training attended on gender mainstreaming ........................................................................28