Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31920/2634-3622/2023/v12n2a1
S. Dlamini, M. Makhaye
Abstract Among the many other crimes that flood South Africa, gender-based violence (GBV) is increasingly becoming a major problem facing the country. Studies have revealed that women and girls are much more likely to be victims, and, in most instances, the perpetrator is known to the victim. This crime has irrepressibly posed great threats to the human rights of women and girls, both locally and internationally, laying serious foundations for engrained progress on women`s rights. This study adopts a qualitative document analysis to examine the phenomenon and suggest a community policing approach—among other preventive policy recommendations—as a paradigm shift in strategy to resolve the crisis in South Africa as well as prevent the future occurrence of such a menace in the country. The findings highlight that the preponderance of criminal justice interventions has resulted in gender-based violence being framed as a problem of criminal law and procedure, police investigation, and appropriate counselling programmes for both victims and perpetrators. However, this approach emphasises amelioration rather than prevention. Hence, the need for community policing as a prevention strategy against gender-based violence. Moreover, this paper recommends the establishment of a stronger partnership and the continuation of seeking ways for closer cooperation between law enforcement agencies and communities for a better prevention of gender-based violence in societies.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31920/2634-3622/2023/v12n2a5
Abrifor Chiedu A., Essien Glory U., Ojeizele O. Monday, Popoola Solagbade Sikiru, Muoghalu Caroline O., Ayemo Folakemi J.
The study examined healthcare choices and challenges among female inmates in selected correctional facilities in Nigeria. This is with a view to examining the major healthcare challenges and choices available. The study employed the descriptive research method, the purposive sampling technique was employed in the selection of the correctional facilities, while the proportionate sampling technique was used to select the female respondents, and a 50% proportion was used. While descriptive analysis was used to analyse the primary data, such parameters as frequency, percentage, mean, and inferential (Pearson’s product moments correlation coefficients) were adopted in the analysis of the primary data. The study reveals that there is a positive and significant relationship between available healthcare and female inmates’ reproductive health, as well as a negative and insignificant relationship between major healthcare challenges and female inmates’ health. The study concludes that available healthcare and female inmates’ reproductive health move in the same direction, while major healthcare challenges and female inmates’ reproductive health move in the opposite direction. The study recommends that in order to improve the female inmate’s reproductive health, the available healthcare facilities require improvement, and the identified health challenges should be addressed as public health issues by the medical practitioners. It is also recommended that a large proportion of the health sector budget be directed towards providing qualitative health facilities in the correctional facilities across the nation in order to improve the standards of female inmates’ reproductive health status.
{"title":"Healthcare Choices and Challenges among Female Inmates in Selected Correctional Facilities in Southwestern Nigeria","authors":"Abrifor Chiedu A., Essien Glory U., Ojeizele O. Monday, Popoola Solagbade Sikiru, Muoghalu Caroline O., Ayemo Folakemi J.","doi":"10.31920/2634-3622/2023/v12n2a5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2634-3622/2023/v12n2a5","url":null,"abstract":"The study examined healthcare choices and challenges among female inmates in selected correctional facilities in Nigeria. This is with a view to examining the major healthcare challenges and choices available. The study employed the descriptive research method, the purposive sampling technique was employed in the selection of the correctional facilities, while the proportionate sampling technique was used to select the female respondents, and a 50% proportion was used. While descriptive analysis was used to analyse the primary data, such parameters as frequency, percentage, mean, and inferential (Pearson’s product moments correlation coefficients) were adopted in the analysis of the primary data. The study reveals that there is a positive and significant relationship between available healthcare and female inmates’ reproductive health, as well as a negative and insignificant relationship between major healthcare challenges and female inmates’ health. The study concludes that available healthcare and female inmates’ reproductive health move in the same direction, while major healthcare challenges and female inmates’ reproductive health move in the opposite direction. The study recommends that in order to improve the female inmate’s reproductive health, the available healthcare facilities require improvement, and the identified health challenges should be addressed as public health issues by the medical practitioners. It is also recommended that a large proportion of the health sector budget be directed towards providing qualitative health facilities in the correctional facilities across the nation in order to improve the standards of female inmates’ reproductive health status.","PeriodicalId":45357,"journal":{"name":"Gender Technology & Development","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75097732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31920/2634-3622/2023/v12n2a10
Thandi Bombi, Vuyolwethu Ncube, Juliana Malacarne
Violence in its various forms (be it physical, verbal, or structural) is enacted by political figures against women journalists across the globe. This study focuses on the violence experienced by women journalists reporting on politics in Brazil and South Africa. The paper examines the question: How are elements of violence enacted against women journalists by political actors in South Africa similar to those in Brazil? The study samples eight pieces of visual data in which the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and President Jair Bolsonaro verbally and physically assault women journalists. The research explores the individual and intersecting tenets of gender-based violence in both contexts. Videos from Brazil and South Africa were sourced from YouTube and Twitter and analysed using thematic analysis. The two main themes the paper explores are: strategic gender-based violence and the avoidance of accountability, and the intersections of power, patriarchy, and physicality. The research concludes that the political figures are aware of the woman journalist’s position in society and use strategic forms of violence to wield their power to both undermine and silence the journalists. Their strategy requires a violence toolkit that consists of the structural and patriarchal gender-based violence embedded in both contexts. The politicians want to avoid accountability for their actions as well as ensure that the woman journalist understands the risk and violence they face if they continue to probe and question them. The paper recommends that further studies should research the strategies that are used to address the gendered violence experienced by women journalists.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31920/2634-3622/2023/v12n2a2
Victor Onyilor Achem, Kelechi Johnmary Ani
IPV is a significant worldwide problem. In general, men are considered perpetrators of this type of violence, but they can also be victims. Relevant pieces of literature uphold women as the principal victims of IPV. An emerging question raised within this context is, “What about the men who are also victims of IPV?” So far, there are limited studies that describe men as victims, especially in Nigeria and West Africa. The routine activity theory of Cohen and Felson was used to provide a theoretical backdrop to the discourse in this study. Precipitant factors like class, culture, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and religion influence male victimisation circles. Indeed, policymakers, social and health care planners, and providers have not paid much attention to men’s victimisation at the local and international levels. There is an urgent need to modify policies and laws concerning IPV by including men as victims.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31920/2634-3622/2023/v12n2a9
M. Letsoalo, MM Mmako
This quantitative cross-sectional comparative exploratory study was aimed at exploring participants’ perspectives on employees thriving at the Polokwane Local Municipality (PLM). It compared the overall male and female professional staff’s perceptions of employees thriving. The sample size comprised 149 male and 133 female professionals. The measuring instrument was reliable at 0.8063 Cronbach’s alpha. The study reported that male and female participants had similar perceptions of employee thriving. It also reported that growth and development were significantly associated, while liveliness and devitalisation were insignificantly associated. Also, it revealed that liveliness and growth are significantly related to development, and devitalisation is inversely related to growth. The study recommended that the organisational climate be designed to empower the employees and enhance their thriving attitude towards work. Also, stakeholders and motivational speakers on employees’ thriving strategic efforts are buffed to adjust for factors that are important when intervening in the career counseling and career choices of municipal employees. Future studies may need to pay attention to different municipalities in the province and beyond.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31920/2634-3622/2023/v12n2a4
Vimbai Chibango, C. Muraraneza, Kemist Shumba
In sub-Saharan Africa, monitoring and evaluation of outcomes of health literacy are critical to the response to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). As guided by Arksey and O’Malley’s framework, this scoping review explores the nexus between gender and HIV-related health literacy. PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Taylor and Francis Group constituted the sources of literature. The study analysed emerging themes using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) chart. From 2048 articles, the final analysis focused on 37 articles. Generally, women had lower education levels than men. Low HIV-related health literacy manifested among women residing in rural and under-served settings. A dearth of research addressing HIV from a gender perspective was identified. Future studies on HIV-related health literacy should consider gender mainstreaming in their endeavours.
在撒哈拉以南非洲，对卫生知识普及成果的监测和评价对于应对人体免疫缺陷病毒(艾滋病毒)和获得性免疫缺陷综合症(艾滋病)至关重要。在Arksey和O 'Malley框架的指导下，这一范围审查探讨了性别与艾滋病毒相关健康素养之间的联系。PubMed、Scopus、b谷歌Scholar、Web of Science和Taylor and Francis Group构成了文献来源。该研究使用系统评价和元分析首选报告项目(PRISMA)图表分析了新兴主题。从2048篇文章中，最终集中分析了37篇文章。一般来说，女性的受教育程度低于男性。在农村和服务不足地区的妇女中，与艾滋病毒有关的卫生知识普及程度较低。从性别角度解决艾滋病毒问题的研究缺乏。今后关于艾滋病毒相关卫生知识普及的研究应考虑将性别问题纳入其工作的主流。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31920/2634-3622/2023/v12n2a8
Shelley Jones, Daniel Ahimbisibwe
This paper reports on stage four of a longitudinal study (2004) with women in Uganda, exploring the long-term relationship between post-primary education and empowerment. 13 of the 15 participants from the original study participated in this Feminist Participatory Action Research project and shared their understandings of how they understood the intersections of education and employment to be empowering, disempowering, and what stood in the way of their economic empowerment. Methods included semi-structured questionnaires and interviews, a two-day workshop, and a focus group discussion. A triangulation design (Cresswell 2008) and constructivist grounded theory approach were used for data analysis. Findings indicate the scope of economic empowerment was severely constrained by historic and extant economic, social, and cultural factors that continue to discriminate against and disempower girls and women. Historic and extant global and national systems and practises that are rooted in, and perpetuate gender-based inequalities, disempowerment, and exploitation need to undergo transformative change to provide women with authentic opportunities and freedom to achieve real empowerment (Cornwall & Rivas, 2015).
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31920/2634-3622/2023/v12n2a3
Rauha Haipinge, René Ferguson, D. Griffiths
This article investigates some of the constraining factors experienced by 16 school-going mothers in the Okalongo circuit, Namibia. This was a qualitative phenomenological study, conducted through in-depth individual interviews, focus group discussions, and reflective journals with 16 school-going mothers between the ages of 17 and 20, purposively selected from three different public rural schools. This qualitative, phenomenological study analyses, through feminist and intersectionality theory, the lived experiences of these young mothers as they encounter the traditional, patriarchal attitudes and practices of the Ovambadja community because these girls fell pregnant before their formal, cultural initiation. The article documents, through the voices of the young women themselves, the numerous constraints they experienced and overcame in their determination to complete their schooling. The findings show that, aside from the deeply held destructive patriarchal beliefs that significantly constrain and harm the mother-learners, the Namibian Learners Pregnancy Policy, which is intended to protect and ensure pregnant learners and mother-learners complete their schooling, is not being properly or effectively implemented. The study recommends an increase in efforts at the national level in Namibia to raise awareness among members of parliament, school administrators and principals, and all policymakers to develop better monitoring systems that will improve policy implementation in schools.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2023.2204629
Juan González-Martínez, Cinzia Runchina, Anna Sánchez-Caballé
Abstract This paper analyzes the digital profile of Italian Licei Classici students in terms of gender, focusing on the competences required by transmedia learning strategies. To this end, a quantitative methodology is applied to 400 adolescents, based on a questionnaire composed of indicators in the field of new media literacy. Italian adolescents show positive digital skills and attitudes toward transmedia, higher than the reference values for each indicator; moreover, in terms of gender, the traditional differences are generally neutralized (women show even higher values than men). From the point of view of transmedia learning (adaptable, flexible and not technically demanding), the values in which women are better versed (information skills and transmedia navigation) mean that learning opportunities are more favorable to them. Therefore, the context of licei classici can not only host transmedia learning experiences, but transmedia learning can also be a proposal against the traditional gender digital divide.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-23DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2023.2182035
T. Cookson, Lorena Fuentes, J. Zulver, Austin Nelson
Abstract This paper presents the results of a scoping review of Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) interventions designed to address sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Our analysis considers the extent to which these ICT4D interventions align with established strategies for preventing and responding to SGBV from gender equality and global health practitioner communities. Using a feminist lens, we propose three parameters against which design features of digitally-based SGBV interventions should be assessed: (1) accessibility, (2) theory of action, and (3) accountability. Reading the intervention landscape through these parameters, our results indicate that ICT interventions to address SGBV deploy creative use of various technologies, from mapping software to social networks and document storage. That said, we also find significant scope for improving the accessibility of existing interventions through use of features that remove literacy barriers. Our findings around the accountability of interventions highlight the need for far greater engagement with emerging conceptualizations of data rights. Finally, we show that existing theories of action are only partially aligned with “offline” best practices.
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