Gender Roles In Zimbabwe

Most of the male participants argued that culturally women are not supposed to own any property because the woman in our cultural context she is the first property of the husband “Mukadzi pachivanhu chedu mudziyo wekutanga wababa saka zvese zvake ndezva babawo futi”. This depicts the dominance of men over women in partriachial societies like Zimbabwe. This brings to the fore the idea that the level of women’s participation in decision making was somehow limited though agricultural projects that mainstream gender aim to necessitate women to take a leading role which is an influential position in making decisions. FAO also established the same results in Vietnam where women had less access to resources for they have an average of 45 per cent

The vast majority of male participants embraced that women also triggered domestic violence as they compete for all the more extensive cultivating portions that may produce more regarding their economic status, which men do not need due to the fact that producing more will as well result in dominance by women. This clearly shows that the disparities that exist between women and men in controlling resources that is, culturally or socially in a partriachial society like Zimbabwe resource control is overwhelmed by male or had a male inclination henceforth having a female bias may trigger problems. This also clearly reveals that the level at which men dominates in resource controlling was very high in comparison to that of women which was still nominal. Following the theoretical assumptions that is, gender mainstreaming involves the integration of gender equality for mutation of all policies, programmes and projects. In line to this, it can be noted that the societal norms and values that undermine the privileges of women as well be changed through the adoption of this strategy so as to reach the developmental goals. In this manner, it can be suggested that gender mainstreaming and other intervention strategies aimed at development should focus on producing transformatory processes and practices that will concern, engage and benefit women and men equally by systematically integrating explicit attention to issues of sex and gender. Interventions that focuses on development should bolster in the notion of gender strategic needs for these are the abstract needs that deal with issues of power and control (Moser, 1993). Pursuant to this, UNDP (2002) also postulated that women’s participation in Namibia agricultural livelihood projects that foster gender